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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “a joan saab”
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  • Objects of Vision

    Making Sense of What We See

    by A. Joan Saab ...
    Series series Perspectives on Sensory History
    Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Concise Companion to Visual Culture

    Edited by A. Joan Saab, Aubrey Anable, Catherine Zuromskis ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
    Provides an up-to-date overview of the present state Visual Cultural Studies, featuring new original content, topics, and methodsThe Wiley Blackwell Concise Companion to Visual Culture brings together original research by both established scholars and new voices in the dynamic field, exploring the history, current state, and possible future directions of visual cultural studies. Organized as a ... Read more

    $189.99 CAD

  • The Beautiful Necessity

    Essays on Architecture

    by Claude Bragdon ...
    A noted American architect of the early twentieth century discusses universal principles behind the harmonious forms and proportions of ancient and modern buildings. Seven essays by Claude Bragdon offer a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science. His observations and analyses encompass a tremendous variety of buildings, from Gothic cathedrals to Giotto's Campanile to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The decline of the West : Volume 1, Form and actuality

    by Oswald Spengler ...
    Explore the Profound Insights of Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and Actuality'Embark on a journey of intellectual discovery and profound philosophical insight with Oswald Spengler's groundbreaking work, 'The Decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and Actuality.' Delve into the depths of Spengler's thought-provoking analysis as he explores the rise and fall of civilizations ... Read more

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  • The Well-Educated Mind

    A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven’t because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.Newly expanded and updated to include ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by SIGMUND FREUD ...
    Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. According to Sigmund Freud, he was a flawed, repressed homosexual. The first psychosexual history to be published, Leonardo da Vinci was the only biography the great psychoanalyst wrote. The text includes the first full emergence of the concept of narcissism and develops Freud's theories of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Essential Jean-Paul Sartre

    The Emotions and Essays in Aesthetics

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    The renowned French philosopher lays the foundation for an Existentialist approach to psychology and aesthetics in this pair of classic works.In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the role of emotions in the human psyche, presenting a phenomenological approach to psychology. Analyzing the universal, yet subjective, experiences of fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art as Experience

    by John Dewey ...
    Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. ... Read more

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  • Living by Fiction

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon." — Los Angeles TimesPulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticismLiving by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art - The Original Classic Edition

    by Kandinsky Wassily ...
    Kandinsky spent a lifetime painting in search of the spiritual. His body of work was his philosophical opus, provoked initially by the prodigious philosophical works of Madame Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, in which she introduced the Western world--and Kandinsky--to Eastern philosophies.Kandinsky believed that art had a duty to be spiritual in nature, an expression of inner need, ... Read more

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  • The Artist's Reality

    by Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko, Kate Prizel Rothko ...
    One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903–1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD