Sensuous Surfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensuous Surfaces write by Jonathan Hay. This book was released on 2010-06-25. Sensuous Surfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Sensuous Surfaces, Jonathan Hay offers one of the most richly illustrated and in-depth introductions to the decorative arts of Ming and Qing dynasty China to date. Examining an immense number of works, he explores the materials and techniques, as well as the effects of patronage and taste, that together have formed a loose system of informal rules that define the decorative arts in early modern China. Hay demonstrates how this system—by engaging the actual and metaphorical potential of surface—guided the production and use of decorative arts from the late sixteenth century through the middle of the nineteenth, a period of explosive growth. He shows how the understanding of decorative arts made a fundamental contribution to the sensory education of China’s early modern urban population. Enriching his study with 280 color plates, he ultimately offers an elegant meditation, not only on Ming and Qing art but on the importance of the erotic in the form and function of decorations of all eras.
Elemental Sensuous
Elemental Sensuous - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elemental Sensuous write by John Murungi. This book was released on 2016-09-23. Elemental Sensuous available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. The elemental is not to be confused here with the classical notion of the atom, which is viewed as a self-contained entity into which all reality is reducible. Rather, the elemental is a living creative force that resists categorization. This force embodies the principle of openness and opening, a principle celebrated and given expression by numerous artists and other friends of the sensuous. As elemental, the sensuous irreducibly expresses itself in multiple ways. The editors of this volume avoid posting themselves between the sensuous and those to whom it presents itself. Each of the contributors here responds to the call of the elemental, and each finds his or her starting point where everyone else starts and ends. The multiple voices brought together here constitute a concert, with the elemental sensuous as the conductor. In reading this book, the reader will become more aware of himself or herself, and more aware of the world in which he or she lives.
The Literary Wittgenstein
The Literary Wittgenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Literary Wittgenstein write by John Gibson. This book was released on 2004. The Literary Wittgenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.
Surfaces
Surfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surfaces write by Joseph A. Amato. This book was released on 2013-05-08. Surfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on Dust and On Foot, he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of surfaces has become truly revolutionary—in both scale and volume. With the sweep of grand history matched to existential concerns for the present, he suggests that we have become the surfaces we have made, mastered, and now control, invent, design, and encapsulate our lives. This deeply informed and original narrative, which joins history and anthropology and suggests new routes for epistemology and aesthetics, argues that surfaces are far more than superficial façades of deep inner worlds.
Sensuous Surfaces
Sensuous Surfaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sensuous Surfaces write by . This book was released on 2009. Sensuous Surfaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
