What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than anoth...

This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. It covers three categories of essays: ...

Luminous hot stars represent the extreme upper mass end of normal stellar evolution. Before explo...

Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a re...

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. ...

Luminous hot stars represent the extreme upper mass end of normal stellar evolution. Before explo...

Drawings and paintings are made, and the process of making creates unique meanings that transform...

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exi...

Modern businesses depend on data for their very survival, creating a need for sophisticated datab...

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism, Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experie...

This book formulates a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern t...

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consum...

Why are visual artworks experienced as having intrinsic significance or normative depth? Why are ...

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are exper...

Paul Crowther thus breaks new ground by providing what is probably the first monograph in any lan...

R.K. Elliott's essays on aesthetics put forward a number of common themes that together constitut...

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consum...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers 'yes.' Computers can generate visual ...

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl's aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl's...

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl's aesthetics. Crowther pieces together Husserl's idea...

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Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Counterin...

This easy-to-read textbook reference presents a comprehensive introduction to databases, opening ...

As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are exper...

Understanding Modernization in Criminal Justice is the first book to theorize modernization in th...

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. ...

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism, Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experie...

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His many ...

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His many ...

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visua...

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' To explain why, Paul Crowther investi...