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Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-02 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Describes and defends the centrality of discomfort for consumers of various arts--literature, architecture, visual art, music, dance, and cinema.
The Aesthetics of Degradation
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Pages: 129
Authors: Adrian Nathan West
Categories: Social Science
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Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussi
Everyday Aesthetics
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Pages: 288
Authors: Yuriko Saito
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-03 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to p
Sensibility and Sense
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Pages: 237
Authors: Arnold Berleant
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-28 - Publisher: Andrews UK Limited

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Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sens
Breathing Aesthetics
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In Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increas