Beauty. What It is and Why It Matters
Beauty and the experience of beauty are something very attractive and at the same time very personal. Moreover, the proposal of beauty as the way to God, the creator of all things and, therefore, of all...
Philosophy of Art
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Milan Lectures.
It is a posthumous book by the well known philosopher specializing in the medieval period, Umberto Eco (1932-2016). It contains some interventions of the author in the academic festival “La Milanesiana (...
Edge of Order
Together with Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, and others, Libeskind is one of the leading architects in deconstructivist architecture, a further development of postmodernist architecture. This book is a mixture of...
Art and Illusion
Art and Illusion is considered the most important work of E. H. Gombrich, one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century. In this book, he examines the history and psychology of pictorial...