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From Aesthetics to Self-consciousness
Arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of...
From Morality to Art
In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This revival, ...
In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such is...
Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt
A lively and accessible read, suitable for non-philosophers, this book reinvigorates central debates in aesthetics and art theory. The book is split i...
A Practical Introduction
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A Post-Analytic Turn
Contemporary discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Few studies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures fasc...
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that p...
Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand v...
Philosophizing Art and Its History
In this 2002 book, Paul Crowther explores the philosophy of visual art and its history....
Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge
Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization under...
From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde
The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critical...
Technology As Iconology
Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp's i...
The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture
Drawings and paintings are made, and the process of making creates unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and our sense of finitu...
Modern businesses depend on data for their very survival, creating a need for sophisticated databases and database technologies to help store, organis...
How Art Forms Empower
This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empoweredโby adaptin...
Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style
As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. The Phenomenology of Modern Art uses phenomen...
This is the first book to gather together R. K. Elliott's important essays on aesthetics. These essays put forward a number of common themes that toge...
Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the differen...
This is the first book to theorize modernization in the context of criminal justice. It provides a historically informed account tracing the evolving ...
The Birth of a Medium
Is art created with computers really art? This book answers โyes.โ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innova...
Working with Husserl
"This is the first book dedicated to Husserl's aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl's ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a ...