aesthetics

A collection of eighteen action paintings covering a wide range of times, places, and artistic styles, including "Saint George and the Dragon" by Paolo Uccello and "The Shark" by John Singleton Copley.

Uses text and cartoon-style illustrations to introduce the history and theories of Aesthetics, the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of experience through perceptions, feelings, and emotions.

Examines the relationship between appearance and lived experience in women's lives. Discusses the influence of makeup, how appearance and personality affect each other, and the opinions of women from all walks of life.

Explores the factors that shape our likes, dislikes, and emotional responses to situations and things. Examines the psychological, marketing, and neurological forces at play in personal and collective tastes.

Examines why watching sporting events fascinate some people, and offers a new way of narrating the history of athletics and understanding the widespread passion sports inspire.

Shrek, a grouchy but otherwise lovable ogre, and his persistent sidekick, Donkey, set out to rescue a feisty princess and win back the deed to his beloved swamp from a scheming nobleman.

Introduces the Roman goddess Venus and explains her importance; features well-known Roman myths about this goddess; and includes map of ancient Rome and family tree of the Roman gods.

Examines the study of values, or axiology, and what makes certain actions right or wrong.

Explores the role of art and human expression at the dawn of the twenty-first century, tracing the history of art in order to form a new assessment of its meanings in the human story.

This useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of the work. Aristotle emerges as holding a deeply cognitivist view of poetry and as rejecting the attempt to judge art primarily by external (e.g., moral, political) criteria; his call for the relative autonomy of art, however, neither commits him to an aestheticist view nor prevents him from attributing to art a significant moral dimension. Halliwell's attempts to keep Plato in close view and to keep the Poetics within the context of Aristotle's philosophy as a whole are illuminating.