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24Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art (edited book)Brill. 2011.How contemporary Chinese art is creating “a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,” as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from America and China
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7Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese ArtIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 385-405. 2013.The idea of beauty in the West has often been connected with the idea of woman, whose beauty has been celebrated in sculptures of the nude since classical Greece and in paintings since the sixteenth century. the nude is not a genre in either traditional or contemporary Chinese art, however, and although there has been nakedness in the representations of the body in the contemporary art of China, its presence is marked by two characteristics that distance the Chinese naked body from the Western n…Read more
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12The Absence of Myth: Writings on SurrealismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (2): 197-198. 1996.
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22The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's HauntJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2): 211-212. 1995.
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Interpretation and the manIn Christine M. Koggel & Andreea Ritivoi (eds.), Interpretation, Relativism, and Identity: Essays on the Philosophy of Michael Krausz, Lexington Books. 2018.
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7Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of LoveJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2): 255-258. 2022.
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2Steven Ungar, Roland Barthes: The Professor of DesireJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (4): 415-418. 1985.
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2Klotz' Heinrich. The History of Postmodern ArchitectureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (2): 175-176. 1990.
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5Laurie Schneider Adams, The Methodologies of Art: An IntroductionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (3): 304-304. 1998.
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6A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China (edited book)Lexington Books. 2020.Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art.
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19The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, TextJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4): 409-412. 2008.
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41Xu Bing: Tobacco Project, Duke/Shanghai/Virginia, 1999–2011 edited by ravenal, john b Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections edited by tsao, hsingyuan and roger t. ames (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (4): 408-412. 2012.
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7Man, Eva Kit Wah, Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and Politics. State University of New York Press, 2017, XXV + 257 pp., 22 color illus., $52.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (2): 240-243. 2018.
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15Titian's WomenDefining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and CriticismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4): 420. 2000.
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81Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays 1980-1987Restructuring Architectural TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (3): 265. 1991.
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8The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist MythsHas Modernism Failed?Journal of Aesthetic Education 20 (3): 122. 1986.
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16Jizi and his art in contemporary China: unificationJournal for Cultural Research 21 (1): 118-120. 2017.This is a book about the journey of a man, Jizi, whose goal was to make contemporary what is authentically Chinese and to do it in a way that speaks to an increasingly global audience. The first ha...
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The Interpretation of the Categorical Imperative in the Ethics of C. I. LewisDissertation, Columbia University. 1974.
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RA Sharpe, Contemporary Aesthetics: A Philosophical Analysis Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (5): 219-221. 1984.
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Cécile Cloutier and Calvin Seerveld, eds., Opuscula Aesthetica Nostra: A Volume of Essays on Aesthetics and the Arts in Canada Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (7): 286-290. 1985.
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22Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of FreudHypatia 8 (3). 1993.Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal.
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18Bathers, bodies, beauty: The visceral eye by Nochlin, LindaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (3). 2007.
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11Towards Reading Freud: Self-Creation in Milton, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Sigmund Freud (review)Philosophy and Literature 15 (2): 365-367. 1991.
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