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Unnatural Wonders

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Author : Arthur C. Danto
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-14

Unnatural Wonders written by Arthur C. Danto and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Philosophy categories.

Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as another-and when the moment for the "next thing" has already passed. So the theorist goes in search of contemporary art's most exhilarating achievements, work that bridges the gap between art and life, which, he argues, is now the definitive art of our time. Danto considers the work of such young artists as John Currin and Renee Cox and older living masters including Gerhard Richter and Sol LeWitt. He discusses artists of the New York School, like Philip Guston and Joan Mitchell, and international talents, such as the South African William Kentridge. Danto conducts a frank analysis of Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle, Damien Hirst's skeletons and anatomical models, and Barbara Kruger's tchotchke-ready slogans; finds the ghost of Henry James in the work of Barnett Newman; and muses on recent Whitney Biennials and art influenced by 9/11. He argues that aesthetic considerations no longer play a central role in the experience and critique of art. Instead art addresses us in our humanity, as men and women who seek meaning in the "unnatural wonders" of art, a meaning that philosophy and religion are unable to provide.

Unnatural Phenomena

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Author : Jerome Clark
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2005-06-21

Unnatural Phenomena written by Jerome Clark and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-21 with Science categories.

Showers of insects, pillars of fire, and cattle mutilations are just some of the bizarre and odd phenomena of nature chronicled in this volume.

Ways Of Knowing In Early Modern Germany

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Author : Gerhild Scholz Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29

Ways Of Knowing In Early Modern Germany written by Gerhild Scholz Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.

Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth century. By relating these individual works to a number of contemporaneous writings, Williams shows how Praetorius constructed a panorama in print in which wonders, the occult, the emerging scientific way of thinking, family and social mores are recurrent themes. Included in Praetorius's portrait of the mid-seventeenth-century are discussions of Paracelsus's scientific theories and practice; early modern German theories on witchcraft and demonology and their applications in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, we read about the early modern beginnings of ethnography, anthropology, and physical geography; gender theory, early modern and contemporary notions of intellectual property, and competing and sometimes conflicting early modern scientific and theological explanations of natural anomalies. Moreover, throughout his work and certainly in those texts chosen for this study, Praetorius appears before us as an assiduous reporter of contemporary European and pan-European events and scientific discoveries, a critic of common superstitions, as much a believer in occult causes and signs and in God's communication with His people. In his writings, in his way of telling, he offers strategies by which to comprehend the political, social, and intellectual uncertainties of his century and, in so doing, identifies ways to confront the diverse interpretive authorities and the varieties of structures of knowledge that interacted and conflicted with each other in the public arena of knowing.

Gaps And The Creation Of Ideas

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Author : Judith Seligson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-08

Gaps And The Creation Of Ideas written by Judith Seligson and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-08 with Social Science categories.

Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist’s Book is a portrait of the space between things, whether they be neurons, quotations, comic-book frames, or fragments in a collage. This twenty-year project is an artist’s book that juxtaposes quotations and images from hundreds of artists and writers with the author’s own thoughts. Using Adobe InDesign® for composition and layout, the author has structured the book to show analogies among disparate texts and images. There have always been gaps, but a focus on the space between things is virtually synonymous with modernity. Often characterized as a break, modernity is a story of gaps. Around 1900, many independent strands of gap thought and experience interacted and interwove more intricately. Atoms, textiles, theories, women, Jews, collage, poetry, patchwork, and music figure prominently in these strands. The gap is a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, rabbinic thinking, modern literary criticism, art, popular culture, and the structure of matter. This book explores many subjects, but it is ultimately a work of art.

Pentecostal Aesthetics

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Author : Steven Felix
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-02-04

Pentecostal Aesthetics written by Steven Felix and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-04 with Religion categories.

Pentecostals have not sufficiently worked out a distinctively Pentecostal philosophy of art and aesthetics. In Pentecostal Aesthetics, with a foreword by Amos Yong, Steven Félix-Jäger corrects this by reflecting theologically on art and aesthetics from a global Pentecostal perspective, particularly through a pneumatic Pentecostal lens.

Herrick S Lie

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Author : T. M. Blanchet
language : en
Publisher: Tiny Fox Press
Release Date : 2023-03-28

Herrick S Lie written by T. M. Blanchet and has been published by Tiny Fox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-28 with Young Adult Fiction categories.

Underground. Underwater. Out of time. Ollie had only wanted to make things better at Herrick's End. And he thought he had, until he sees the stark truth spelled out in black-and-white: His friends are in danger, and it's all his fault. The good news? There might be a solution. The less-good news? It's hidden at the bottom of a deep, dangerous lake. Leaping into that water, he knows, is a monstrously bad idea. It's also the only idea he's got. One thing is certain: Ollie's quest to right past wrongs is about to open up a whole new can of wormwalkers in the extraordinary underground world he now calls home.