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Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

David Cottington, Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0192803646 | 2005 | PDF | 1 MB | 168 pages

This work is a introduction to the field of modern art. Cottington nicely surveys the central movements, ideas, and controversies within the field -- and sprinkles his treatment with numerous examples/artists.

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Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction

Geraldine A. Johnson, Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press | ISBN 0192803549 | 2005 | PDF | 3 MB | 177 pages

Clearly, it can be very difficult to really ‘see’ the artists as well as the art of 15th- and 16th-century Europe as Renaissance beholders would have done. However, by trying to reconstruct the original ‘period eye’ that would have gazed not only on a relatively small number of works by the great Michelangelo, but also on many more images and objects produced by much less well-known or even anonymous artists and craftsmen, we can begin to move beyond considering only who produced a particular work of art, and instead start to understand why and how such works were made, used, and understood by their original Renaissance beholders.

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Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art

William Desmond, Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art
State University of New York Press | ISBN 079145746X | 2003 | PDF | 2 MB | 319 pages

Art, origins, otherness—but why bring philosophical reflection to bear on these three concerns together? The connection may not be immediately selfevident. The themes of otherness, origin, art may have been a continuing preoccupation in some of my previous works, but what of the matter itself? First, questions concerning origins have marked a set of essential perplexities for philosophy since its beginning. Then, questions about art have contributed to new forms of perplexity, not least since philosophy has taken on new questions about its own tasks, especially since Kant. Finally, questions about otherness have assumed an evident prominence in our time, witnessing to our sense of distance from former, seemingly less self-lacerated practices of philosophy.

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Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)

Peter Childs, "Modernism (The New Critical Idiom)"
TF-ROUTL | 2000-08-08 | ISBN:0415196485 | 248 pages | Djvu | 1,8 Mb

Modernism is a succinct but authoritative analysis of the most important literary innovations of the last hundred years. Peter Childs explains the pan-European origins of the radical literary changes that occurred in the novel, poetry and drama, as well as the many revolutions in art, film and aesthetic theory. This highly readable book explains the key terminology of the subject; orients the reader in terms of modernism's basic aspects; explores the literary shifts from realism to modernism to postmodernism; analyzes to modernist elements in the texts of writers such as Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Yeats, Ford, Eliot, Richardson, Conrad, Beckett; explains the impetus that Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Saussure and Einstein gave to experimental writers at the turn of the century.

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The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Edition 1 (4-Vol. Set)

Paul F. Grendler, "The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Edition 1 (4-Vol. Set) "
Charles Scribner's Sons | 2003-11-14 | ISBN:0684312816 | 970 pages | PDF | 39 Mb

Based on the Dartmouth Medal-winning Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (2000), this set has been prepared especially for non-specialists, focusing on the Renaissance-era topics most studied in high school world history, art, literature, economics and science curriculum. Organized alphabetically, this illustrated, full-color set includes entries on a range of topics, including:
Florence
Galileo
Heraldry
Humanism
Medici family
Opera
Piracy
Rhetoric
Shakespeare
Spanish Armada
Leonardo da Vinci
And many others

Features include a master chronology with topical timelines; a bibliography with age-appropriate further reading sources and a comprehensive index.

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Literary Theory: An Introduction Second Edition

Terry Eagleton “Literary Theory: An Introduction Second Edition"
University of Minnesota Press; 2nd edition (November 1996) | ISBN: 081661251X | PDF | 234 pages | 1,2 Mb

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Modernism (The New Critical Idiomá)

Peter Childs “Modernism (The New Critical Idiomá)"
Routledge (December 22, 2007) | ISBN:0415415462 | Djvu | 236 pages | 1,5 Mb

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Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

Peter Kivy “Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics"
Wiley | 2004-02-23 | ISBN: 0631221301 | 368 pages | PDF | 14,2 Mb

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritative survey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available. The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on the evaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other forms of art such as literature, movies, and music.
Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edge issues in aesthetics today.
Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, including Peter Kivy, George Dickie, Noël Carroll, Paul Guyer, Ted Cohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, Nicholas Wolterstrorff, Susan Feagin, Peter Lamarque, Stein Olsen, Francis Sparshott, Alan Goldman, Jenefer Robinson, Mary Mothersill, Donald Crawford, Philip Alperson, Laurent Stern and Amie Thomasson.
Functions as the ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in aesthetics, art theory, and philosophy of art.

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Art in Progress

Maarten Doorman “Art in Progress"
Amsterdam University Press | 2003-10-01 | ISBN: 905356585X | 178 pages | PDF | 1,3 Mb

In this challenging essay, Maarten Doorman argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism, he claims, have had a crippling effect on art, leaving it in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context; the concept of progress, then, is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. The history of art, in fact, can be seen as a process of constant accumulation, works of art commenting on one another and enriching one another's meanings. It is these complex interrelationships and the progress they create in both art and its observers that Doorman, in a display of great philosophical erudition, defends.

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Culture in the Communication Age

James Lull “Culture in the Communication Age"
Routledge | 2000-11-07 | ISBN: 041522117X | 256 pages | PDF | 14,3 MB

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today?
Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era. They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters consider:
* Cultures of the mind * Rethinking culture in a global context * Re-thinking Culture, from 'ways of life' to 'lifestyle' * Gender and Culture * Popular Culture and Media Spectacles * Visual Culture * Star Culture * Computers, the Internet and Virtual Cultures * Superculture in the Communication Age
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