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      Mindprints

      Ivan Gaskell

      A rediscovery of Thoreau's interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.

      Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with ascetic renunciation, Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools…

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      Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art

      Ivan Gaskell

      This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past.

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      Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art

      Ivan Gaskell

      This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past.

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      Explanation and Value in the Arts

      Penetrating studies by a group of art historians, literary theorists, and philosophers consider ‘explanation’ and works of literature and painting.

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      Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

      An interdisciplinary collection of new essays exploring the interaction between politics and the arts.

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      Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

      Brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious and aesthetic…

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      Explanation and Value in the Arts

      Penetrating studies by a group of art historians, literary theorists, and philosophers consider ‘explanation’ of works of literature and painting.

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      Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts

      This volume brings together essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and…

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      Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

      This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious…

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      The Language of Art History

      The first volume in a new series, this book offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by the relationship between the…

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      Landscape, Natural Beauty and the Arts

      This volume offers studies of the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature.

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      The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

      Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book…

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      Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts

      Nietzsche’s writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the…

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      Tangible Things: Making History through Objects

      Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,Sarah Anne Carter,Ivan Gaskell,Sara Schechner,Samantha van Gerbig

      Based on the rich museum collections of Harvard University, Tangible Things challenges rigid distinctions between history, anthropology, science, and the arts. Through 20 entertaining and inspiring case studies it demonstrates…

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      Enrique Martinez Celaya - 1992 - 2015

      In 1990 Enrique Martinez Celaya left a promising career in physics for art and since then he has pursued his work with a singular and uncompromising vision. Working in a…

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