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Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics Case Studies

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This collection of illustrated case studies, exclusively commissioned for Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics, has been designed to introduce readers to core questions about taste, judgement, and the nature of art. Drawing on an array of objects, including sculptures, installation art, food, nature, and the human body, each case study centres on a single artwork or familiar object to open the door to new ways of thinking about art, creativity, and beauty.

General Editor: Darren Hudson Hick. Click here to read more about this collection, including biographies of the contributors.


Aikidō as a Martial Art Style

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Johnathan Flowers

Batman : A Case Study in Ontology and Appreciation

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Wesley D. Cray

The Beard

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Henry John Pratt

Beautiful Philosophy

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Dominic McIver Lopes

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight

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Hans Maes

Beloved: Failures of Imagination and Narrative Engagement with Fiction

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Adriana Clavel-Vázquez

The Cape Romano Dome Home: Urban Exploration and the Aesthetic Allure of Abandoned Places

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Elizabeth Scarbrough

Chiapas Tote Bag : Artistic Value, Forgeries, Appropriation Art and Cultural Appropriation

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Paloma Atencia-Linares

The Choir

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Jennifer Judkins

Cue Change

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James Hamilton

Edgar Degas, The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans)

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Christopher Bartel

Ha Jin, A Good Fall

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Robert Stecker

Highlander II And Why It’s Okay to Ignore It

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A.J. Black

Hip: Personal Style and Aesthetic Property

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Saul Fisher

Itches

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Sherri Irvin

Johannes Vermeer, Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window: Two Glimpses of Vermeer

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Mary Beth Willard

Katharina Grosse, It Wasn’t Us

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Elisa Caldarola

Kristen Visbal, Fearless Girl

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Sondra Bacharach and Deborah Tollefsen

A Little Bronze Horse

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Carolyn Korsmeyer

Manhole Covers: Aesthetics Underfoot

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Yuriko Saito

The Mississippi River in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

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Theodore Gracyk

Okesa II : A Case Study in Indigenous Aesthetics as a non-Western Paradigm

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heather ahtone and Norman Akers

Olafur Eliasson, The weather project

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Jennifer A. McMahon

Oscar Reutersvärd’s Impossible Triangle

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Jason P. Leddington

Other Cultures, Too

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Saam Trivedi

Paul Gauguin’s Manao Tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching)

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Erich Hatala Matthes

The Phantom Edit

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James Harold

Pro Wrestling Show

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Lisa Jones

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

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Darren Hudson Hick

A Seventeenth-Century Likeness of Rembrandt and the Limits of Connoisseurship

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Ivan Gaskell

The Taco Bell Beef Crunchy Taco

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Alex King

The Taste of Olive Oil

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Sarah E. Worth

Taylor Swift, Fearless (Taylor’s Version)

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Brandon Polite

Tjungkara Ken, Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), a self-portrait : What Makes Something a Portrait?

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Cynthia Freeland

The Underground Railroad, Vermont and the Fugitive Slave

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Darren Hudson Hick

Wedding Cakes : The Cake Artistry of Masterpiece Cakeshop

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Brian Soucek

The Whitened Female Face in Contemporary China

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Eva Kit Wah Man

Wim Delvoye, Tim : The Life and Death of an Artwork

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E.M. Dadlez and Laura Sizer

The ‘Gift’ of Black Art

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James Haile

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