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  • The Sovereign Self

    Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde

    In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining the ability to reflect back critically on society—through Kant, ... Les mer

    220,09 kr

  • The Design of Everyday Things

    av Don Norman ...
    **The essential guide to human-centered design“Even more relevant today than it was when first published.”—Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO**Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores ... Les mer

    123,47 kr

  • The Artist's Way

    A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

    av Julia Cameron ...
    'A really good starting point to discover what lights you up' - Emma Gannon'Unlock your inner creativity and ease your anxiety' Daily TelegraphTHE MULTI-MILLION-COPY WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERSince its first publication, The Artist's Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and millions of readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper ... Les mer

    186,38 kr

  • Ways of Seeing

    av John Berger ...
    Serie serien Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... Les mer

    111,78 kr

  • Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)

    av Plato ...
    Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of the founders of Western philosophy by recording the teachings of his master and his own philosophies in 35 dialogues and 13 letters (some are disputed as spurious). However, this collection features ... Les mer

    8,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Emotional Design

    Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

    av Don Norman ...
    Why attractive things work better—and other crucial insights into human-centered design.**“You'll never see housewares the same way again.”—**WiredEmotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. Building on his ... Les mer

    115,78 kr

  • Feel Free

    Essays

    av Zadie Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of Orwell, Woolf and Angela Carter' Financial Times'Engrossing, astute... ... ... Les mer

    124,21 kr

  • What Art Is

    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Les mer

    195,69 kr

  • Selected Essays of John Berger

    av John Berger ...
    Serie serien Vintage International
    The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger’s seminal essays.Berger’s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even ... Les mer

    137,46 kr

  • The Complete Works of Jane Austen (In One Volume)

    Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady ... Sandition, and the Complete Juvenilia

    The Complete Works of Jane Austen includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sandition, and her complete Juvenilia. Jane Austen is famous for her six novels, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Her works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely ... Les mer

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  • See/Saw

    Looking at Photographs

    av Geoff Dyer ...
    A lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human ConditionSee/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in photographers from early in the last century to the present day—including artists such as Eugène Atget, Vivian Maier, Roy DeCarava, and Alex Webb—the celebrated writer Geoff Dyer offers a series of ... Les mer

    136,99 kr

  • How to See the World

    Serie serien Pelican Books
    In recent decades, we have witnessed an explosion in the number of visual images we encounter, as our lives have become increasingly saturated with screens. From Google Images to Instagram, video games to installation art, this transformation is confusing, liberating and worrying all at once, since observing the new visuality of culture is not the same as understanding it.Nicholas Mirzoeff is a ... Les mer

    111,78 kr

  • H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection. (With Accompanying Facts): 62 Short Stories and 5 Novellas.

    The Nameless City The Festival The Colour Out of Space The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness The Dreams in the Witch House The Haunter of the Dark The Shadow Over Innsmouth Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" The Shadow Out of Time At the Mountains of Madness The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Azathoth Beyond the Wall of Sleep Celephaïs Cool Air Dagon Ex ... Les mer

    8,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Romantic Manifesto

    av Ayn Rand ...
    In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to let popular catchwords and conventional ideas stand between her and the truth as she has discovered it. The Romantic Manifesto takes its place beside The Fountainhead as one of the most important ... Les mer

    88,36 kr

  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    av Roger Scruton ...
    Serie serien Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Les mer

    74,01 kr

  • High Heel

    Serie serien Object Lessons
    Best Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Paste MagazineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels good? Are they feminist? What does it mean for a woman (or, for that ... Les mer

    60,48 kr

  • The Vast Extent

    On Seeing and Not Seeing Further

    '[Greenlaw] wields her erudition lightly.' Sunday Times'Remarkable, visionary.' CELIA PAUL'Indescribably brilliant.' Daily Telegraph'Kaleidoscopic.' Guardian'A rare pleasure . . . rewarding and thought-provoking.' Irish TimesFrom the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is a constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of... ... Les mer

    139,00 kr

  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Les mer

    111,06 kr

  • Art history

    A critical introduction to its methods

    Art History: A critical introduction to its methods provides a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates within art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to post-colonialism, the book provides a sense of art history’s own history as a discipline from its emergence in the late-eighteenth century to contemporary debates. By explaining the underlying ... Les mer

    195,29 kr

  • Citizen

    An American Lyric

    * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. L... ... Les mer

    142,64 kr

  • 中文打字機:機械書寫時代的漢字輸入進化史

    The Chinese Typewriter: A History

    Serie serien 歷史.中國史
    一項傾國之力的文明試驗,一股不願被世界拋下的恐懼漢字書寫 ◆ 科技革命 ◆ 權力運作中文輸入法的起源,人機互動的先聲現代資訊科技史上最重要、卻被誤解最深的發明挑戰字母文字霸權 化不可能為可能跨越五千年障礙 具有顛覆意義的技術創新中文打字機的誕生,就是現代中國崛起與壯大的象徵美國漢學界顛峰之作 費正清獎、列文森獎(特別榮譽)雙料得主史丹佛大學歷史學教授 墨磊寧 十五年研究集成 中譯本首度在臺問世★☆臺灣版獨家收錄☆★ 作者對談實錄:中文書寫資訊技術史二部曲搶先預告----------------------------------------------------廢除漢字、實現澈底字母化,曾是二十世紀初的主流觀點。從一台擁有5000個按鍵的幻想機器怪物,到「中文打字機之父」周厚坤,傾家蕩產研發「明快打字機」的林語堂,商務印書館首創打字部門,時髦卻刻板的「女... ... Les mer

    138,70 kr

  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major ... Les mer

    179,39 kr

  • Introduction to Modern Design

    Its History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    With some 280 colour illustrations, Introduction to Modern Design takes us on a visual survey of design from the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Maker Movement of today. It offers a new understanding of the birth of modern design in the early twentieth century and chronicles the way its meaning has changed over the decades. The narrative is supported by twenty-six readings ... Les mer

    483,04 kr

  • The Complete Essays

    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... Les mer

    8,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus