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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing.

Nie sind monströsere Gefahren überwunden und rachsüchtigere Götter überlistet worden als in der griechischen Antike. Stephen Fry haucht den Sagen um Perseus, Herakles & Ödipus neues Leben ein. Ob Jason mithilfe von Medeas Zauber das Goldene Vlies stiehlt oder Theseus durch Ariadnes List den Minotaurus überwindet - mit seinem unnachahmlichen Humor holt Fry die klassischen Stoffe in unsere Zeit. Er zeigt, dass hinter jedem Helden eine Heldin steht und dass es der Auflehnung der Helden gegen Zeus & Co. bedurfte, um der Welt von uns Menschen den Weg zu bereiten.

Ten years ago, art students Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad started a website, posting irreverent reviews of exhibitions every Sunday under the playful moniker ‘The White Pube’. The duo emphasized the emotional and physical experience of seeing art over the cold analysis typical...

From the acclaimed author of The King’s Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun. In the late autumn of 1789, two of Europe’s most celebrated painters met in Rome. One, Angelica Kauffman, was a...

Western art, with its lineage from the ancient world to the present, has given us works of genius by the likes of Phidias, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, and many more. In the 25 engrossing lectures of Understanding Western Art: Stories, Styles, and Masterworks, you’ll explore the larger themes, principles, and expressive currents that tell the story of Western art, and which shed light on its deeper meanings.

'I was transfixed by Portrait' HANNAH ROTHSCHILD ‘Imaginative, absorbing, very moving’ MICHAEL PALIN 'Quietly beautiful, deeply felt' JOANNE BURN Between 1898 and his death in 1916, the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi painted more than two dozen pictures of his wife, Ida, seen only from...

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.

Em Notre-Dame, Ken Follett reflete sobre o papel que a catedral desempenhou ao longo do tempo e revela a influência que ela exerceu tanto em outras catedrais ao redor do mundo quanto em um de seus mais conhecidos e adorados romances, Os Pilares da Terra. Ele descreve, também, as emoções que sentiu ao saber do incêndio que quase destruiu uma das maiores catedrais do mundo.

Brought to you by Penguin. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the...

In his Introduction, Abraham Kaplan places Dewey's philosophy of art within the context of his pragmatism. Kaplan demonstrates in Dewey's esthetic theory his traditional "movement from a dualism to a monism" and discusses whether Dewey's viewpoint is that of the artist, the respondent, or the critic.

Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism - the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable components - has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths.

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. 

كيف تحولت لوحة زيتية صغيرة من عصر النهضة إلى أيقونة بصرية عالمية وأشهر عمل فني في التاريخ الثقافي؟ يغوص هذا السرد التاريخي المليء بالتشويق في رحلة استثنائية،...

Ontrafel de geschiedenis van een simpel kaartspel dat uitgroeide tot een mystiek symbool van lotsbestemming. Deze intrigerende luisterervaring is een fascinerende metgezel voor je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of een rustig moment van zelfreflectie. Het verhaal reist van levendige historische...

اكتشف أسرار مصر القديمة عبر رحلة صوتية غامرة تفكك أعظم لغز أثري صامد في وجه الزمن. سواء كنت تسترخي في هدوء المساء أو تتنقل خلال زحام يومك، سيأخذك هذا السرد...

一幅原本只属于文艺复兴时期私人的小尺寸肖像画，究竟是如何突破艺术史的边界，在一系列轰动全球的失窃案与现代传媒的狂欢中，逆袭为世界顶流的文化符号？打破关于画作的各种阴谋论与伪神秘，这段快节奏的非虚构叙...

Explora el mayor enigma de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el trágico destino del tesoro perdido más codiciado de Europa. Perfecto para tus trayectos diarios, este absorbente relato te sumerge en la opulencia de las cortes imperiales y la devastación del saqueo nazi. Déjate atrapar por una...

Desvela el enigma arqueológico del antiguo Egipto explorando certezas históricas y mitos aún sin resolver. Perfecto para acompañar tus trayectos diarios o momentos de relajación, este audio inmersivo te transporta a la meseta de Guiza para experimentar la verdadera historia del coloso...

Explora la verdadera historia cultural del esoterismo y desvela el poderoso simbolismo oculto detrás de estas cartas. Ya sea que busques expandir tu mente en tu trayecto diario o necesites sumergirte en una atmósfera reflexiva antes de dormir, este relato fascinante separa los mitos...

Un intrigante viaje por la historia del arte revela cómo un retrato renacentista alcanzó el estatus de ícono global. Ideal para alimentar tu curiosidad intelectual durante tu trayecto diario, esta fascinante crónica separa rigurosamente el mito de la realidad comprobada. Sumérgete en la...