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The future of post-human visual arts : towards a new theory of techniques and spirits. Volume I /

Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, ""people under 60, raised on television ... remember by what they see ... [F]ilm and television are really the language of today""? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baofu, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2014]
Colección:Fine arts, music and literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Introduction
  • Introduction: the attraction of the visual arts
  • A debate on the centrality of the visual arts
  • Definition and history of the visual arts
  • Techniques and spirits of the visual arts
  • Diverse aspects of the visual arts
  • The theoretical debate
  • The ephemeral theory of the visual arts
  • Theory and meta-theory
  • The logic of existential dialectics
  • Sophisticated methodological holism
  • Chapter outline
  • Some clarifications
  • pt. 2. Techniques
  • Techniques and their duality
  • The significance of techniques
  • Techniques and the mind
  • Techniques and nature
  • Techniques and society-- Techniques and culture
  • The insignificance of techniques.