How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st century aesthetics. A global overview of the ways in which contemporary artists are using science as a muse. Some of the most dynamic contemporary art is now being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social [...]

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Author: Stephen Wilson, English, Art General, Softcover, 275x230mm, full colour, 208pp, ISBN: 9780500238684,
Price: (ZA)R 540

AOM From the introductory question – how to talk about art in a politically demanding milieu – to meditations on writers ranging from J.M. Coetzee to Nelson Mandela, Salman Rushdie to Nadine Gordimer, Michael Chapman offers a continually surprising, consistently intellectual, and boldly original consideration of literary-cultural tradition and innovation that in many ways is [...]

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Author: Michael Chapman, English, NonArt, Softcover,200pg,225x146mm, ISBN: 978 1869140694,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction [...]

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Author: Edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon, English, Art General , softcover, 256 pages, 234 x 156 mm, 40 black and white illustrations, ISBN: 978 1854376589,
Price: (ZA)R 300.00