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  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

    by Dominic Lopes ...
    What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters

    by Dominic Lopes, Bence Nanay, Nick Riggle ...
    Series series Thinking Art
    As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters offers three new answers to Socrates's great question about how we ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Being for Beauty

    Aesthetic Agency and Value

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest insights of science and mathematics. For centuries, however, philosophers and other thinkers have identified beauty with what brings pleasure. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Beyond Art

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

    Edited by Berys Gaut, Dominic Lopes ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, Goodman, and Wollheim. The second part covers the central concepts ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics on the Edge

    Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic and aesthetic phenomena. Dominic McIver Lopes argues for a new approach that mandates closer integration, from the start, between ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Aesthetic Injustice

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwaka'wakw carving, or the kawaii invasion of parts of Tokyo. The diversity of the aesthetic ecosystem enriches our lives. In Aesthetic Injustice, Dominic McIver Lopes draws on his earlier books, Beyond Art and Being for Beauty^—^as well as the rich ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Four Arts of Photography

    An Essay in Philosophy

    by Dominic McIver Lopes ...
    Series series New Directions in Aesthetics
    Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century.Re-examines the history of art photography through four major photographic movements and with case studies of representative imagesEmploys a top-down, theory to case approach, as well as a bottom-up, case to theory ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • The Geography of Taste

    Edited by Dominic McIver Lopes, Samantha Matherne, Mohan Matthen, Bence Nanay ...
    Series series Thinking Art
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find people immersed in matters aesthetic. In UNESCO's definition, there can be no culture that lacks an aesthetic life. Aesthetic life is in this sense ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts

    Edited by Matthew Kieran, Dominic Lopes ...
    Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art.Imagination is a central concept in aesthetics with close ties to issues in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, yet it has not received the kind of sustained, critical attention it deserves. This ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • Practice as Research

    Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry

    Edited by Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt ...
    Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio informed doctorates frequently favoured over traditional approaches to research. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry is specifically designed as a training tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book's framework and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life

    Working with Everyday Life Materials

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    This book is a ′survival guide′ for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger social issues.As living human beings in cultural worlds, we are constantly surrounded by ′data′ ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD