Tag: Aesthetics

Free Download Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank, "Aesthetics of Participation: Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House "
English | ISBN: 1032668776 | 2024 | 172 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera House, Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building, these different modes of participation reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience.

Free Download Aesthetics of Participation: Atmosphere, Design, and Experience at the Oslo Opera House
by Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032668776 | 184 Pages | True PDF | 25 MB

Free Download Georg Simmel, "Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 022662109X | 2020 | 392 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today.

Free Download The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature by Benjamin Morgan
English | May 1, 2017 | ISBN: 022644211X, 022646220X | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.7 MB
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences.

Free Download Matthew Pateman, "The Aesthetics of Culture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
English | ISBN: 0786422491 | 2006 | 288 pages | EPUB | 1285 KB
On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, television has offered not just entertainment, but observations-subtle and otherwise-on society. This book examines the cultural commentary contained in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, a show that ran for seven seasons (1997-2003) and 144 episodes.

Free Download Men’s Aesthetics: A Practical Guide to Minimally Invasive Treatment
English | 2024 | ISBN: 313242837X | 300 Pages | EPUB (True) | 18 MB
This book assembles a group of renowned experts from around the world to cover a range of topics in the field, including aesthetic preferences of men, anatomical changes in men as they age, as well as a variety of treatments and procedures from volumizing the face to the use of neuromodulators and fillers, chemical peels, lasers, lights and energy devices, skin tightening, and treating male pattern hair loss and hair restoration.

Free Download Madalina Diaconu, "Aesthetics of Weather"
English | ISBN: 1350416657 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather from various angles becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world.

Free Download The Persistence of Modernity: Essays on Aesthetics, Ethics and Postmodernism by Albrecht Wellmer, translated by David Midgley
English | September 2, 1991 | ISBN: 0745605389 | True EPUB | 236 pages | 0.3 MB
In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean-François Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the aesthetic, ethical and philosophical dimensions of the modern era. In opposition to those who view post-modernity as a sign of post-enlightenment, Wellmer makes a reasoned plea for a re-examination of the goals of emancipatory Enlightenment and explores its implications for the appreciation of modern art forms.

Free Download Aaron Ridley, "Singularities: Essays in Aesthetics"
English | ISBN: 0192845977 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 6 MB
These essays, half of them appearing here for the first time, address issues concerning the two key singularities that Kant identified in aesthetics: artistic creativity and aesthetic judgement. Ranging from Kant himself to contemporary debates, from song to conceptual art, from ethics to atheism, from function to failure, Aaron Ridley explores the ways in which the one-off character of creativity and judgement may defy our ordinary expectations of what an explanation should be like. Intended equally for specialists and students, this collection offers a distinctive approach to aesthetics that will be of interest to any reader concerned with philosophical reflection upon the arts.

Free Download Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong"
English | ISBN: 1438480741 | 2021 | 268 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 2 MB
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926-2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary. While Angkarn’s poetry conjures the image of an early modern Thai cosmopolitanism, it also pioneers a poetics reflective of present-day globalization. The result is an experiment in Buddhist cosmopolitan aesthetic modernity. Teardrops of Time contextualizes the poet’s work in the literary history and cultural politics of his time, tracing the transformation of a modern Thai cultural and political imaginary through the political history of the country’s authoritarian governance since the late 1950s and the exigencies of an increasingly globalized economy since the 1980s. As Angkarn’s work aligns itself with contemporaneous global trends in poetry, the book reads it alongside the work of Paul Celan and Allen Ginsberg.