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English
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With regard to the development of humanistic ideals, intellectual inquiry, and the quest for artistic excellence, "Renaissance Art Philosophy: Guide to Spirit of Renaissance Ideologies" provides a thorough examination of the significant influence of Renaissance art. This incisive manual explores the rich heritage of Renaissance art philosophy, emphasizing the theory's continuing influence on the development of artistic expression, cultural identity,...
Author
Series
Modern Library giants volume G80
Language
English
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Description
Six works selected from Nietzsche's writings, including "The Birth of Tragedy," "Beyond Good and Evil," and "On the Genealogy of Morals" reflect the philosopher's critique of Western morality and insights into Christianity and art.
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (21 cm).
Language
English
Description
These lectures reveal how mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. We study how the model of certainty in Euclid's revolutionary Elements influenced philosophers for centuries, and how the invention of non-Euclidiean geometry further influenced philosophy and changed modern views of the world. As well. we consider how the newer disciplines of probability and statistics gave scientists ways of dealing--with precision--with events that...
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Series
Bollingen volume 24A
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
661 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat? With this book as your guide, you'll survive and thrive in any period in Earth's history. Bestselling author and time-travel enthusiast Ryan North shows you how to invent all the modern conveniences we take for granted from...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Ecco paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 479 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Features essays that are as much a portrait of the elegant thought processes of an unconventional and virtuoso mind as they are inquiries into their subjects, which range from meditations on how we see and treat the earth to the relationship between literature and religion.
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the Shoulders of Giants collects previously unpublished essays from the last fifteen years of Umberto Eco's life. With humor and erudition, one of the great contemporary thinkers takes on the roots of Western culture, the origin of language, the nature of beauty and ugliness, the imperfections of art, and the lure of mysteries"--
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Since the 1990s he has been an indispensable cultural voice: witty and provocative, he has attracted contemporary readers to fine art as few critics have. An early champion of forgotten and overlooked women artists, he has also celebrated the pioneering work of African American, LGBTQ+, and other long-marginalized...
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