Discusses the application of deconstructionist theories and criticism to the visual arts, and considers its relation to Western metaphysics (view table of contents)

Product Description: Deconstruction in architecture and the visual arts is defined by writings and projects from around the world. Four sections present the work of major contributors such as Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, Valerio Adami, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and many more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explains the concept of deconstruction, discusses the influence of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, and looks at examples of deconstruction in art and architecture

Product Description: First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: With texts drawn from a diverse selection of contributors from many different disciplines, this latest issue of the "Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts" centres on the philosophical reconsideration of space in regard to painting and architecture and particularly gender...read more

Product Description: 1993 edition. Very good, clean, unmarked copy. Slight rubbing on corners and edges. From private collection.

Product Description: Whether there is a sense of being contained or trapped in a body, or of viewing it from the outside, these emotions are frequently externalised in creativity. This issue deals incisively with the reaction, as a woman, to the idea of all humans having a sense of being 'contained' by the body...read more

Product Description: Thinking Art: Beyond Traditional Aesthetics by Andrew Benjamin.

Product Description: Abstraction has not only been an important 20th-century art form, it has also given rise to one of the most significant and influential schools of criticism. This work seeks to offer different interpretations of abstraction. Texts by important current philosophers and critics, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Stan Allen, John Rajchman, Andrew Benjamin, Maia Damianovic, John Lechte, Nick Millett and David Moos accompany features on work by some of the leading artists working currently in the field of abstraction, including Albert Ayme, Lydia Dona, David Reed, Fabian Marcaccio, Therese Oulton and Jessica Stockholder...read more

Product Description: JPVA Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts No 6 Complexity Architecture / Art / Philosophy 'Beginning with complexity will involve working with the recognition that there has always been more than one. Here however this insistent "more than one" will be positioned beyond the scope of semantics; rather than complexity occurring within the range of meaning and taking the form of a generalised polysemy, it will be linked to the nature of the object and to its production...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: * Explores current thought on the theme of Abstraction * Benjamin is one of the best known philosophers writing on art today * Incisive and accessible text aimed at students of philosophy and art * Proposes a new and radical framework for abstraction (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Art & Design Andrew Benjamin Saul Ostrow John Lechte Stan Allen David Batchelor Charles Harrison David Moos Harald Klingelhöller Michael Newman Didier Vermeiren Christine Boshier Jean-Luc Nancy Lucille Bertrand Rebecca Comay Rachel Whiteread Jesse Reiser Tony Cragg Serge Spitze...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a review of the laws in the state of Washington as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.

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The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and included Lyotard's important essay on Sensus Communis.

Product Description: Armed Surfaces presents DRD Lab's investigations into contemporary reality and a new typology for living. An analysis of transitional moments in daily life instigates a re-examination of Modern Functionalism as an ideology of standardisation and normalcy.

Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. The book is structured around three distinct areas: the extension of Benjamin's work; the question of historical connection; the importance of the essay in the development of criticism of both the visual arts and literature. Contributors to the volume include major Benjamin commentators, whose work has very much defined the reception of the essay, and leading philosophers, historians and aesthetician, whose approaches open up new areas of interest and relevance.