Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form 0804799946, 9780804799942

Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form 0804799946, 9780804799942

The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-op

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How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age 9780300259896

A leading critic’s inside story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and 80s

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Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City 9780231533881

Traces the history of graffiti in New York City against the backdrop of the struggle that developed between the city and

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Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War 9781400874439

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surren

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Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future 9780748670000

Tracks the sublime art movement from Kant to the 21st century and onwards to a new future Stephen Zepke tracks the sub

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Art as Human Practice: An Aesthetics 9781350063143, 9781350063150, 9781350063174, 9781350063136

How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet

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How Paris Became Paris 9781620401132

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Architectural Aesthetics: Appreciating Architecture As An Art (Bloomsbury Aesthetics) 9781350210998, 9781350211001, 9781350211018, 9781350211025, 1350210994

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a

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Street Fighting: America's Martial Art 0879474289, 9780879474287

Street Fighting: America's Martial Art. George Carpenter. Desert Publications. 1979.

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How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age 0300234104, 9780300234107

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