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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of m
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood
Language: en
Pages: 56
Pages: 56
Type: BOOK - Published: 1976 - Publisher: Dover
197 organic designs on 48 plates by Verneuil, Bourgeot, and others: arrowhead, blackberry, buttercup, columbine, gourd, honeysuckle, iris, thistle, more; plus a
Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-07 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Film culture often rejects visually rich images, valuing simplicity, austerity, or even ugliness as more provocative, political, and truly cinematic. Although c