Civic Aesthetics

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Step...

Abstract This book explores how to forge more empowering and equitable spaces for civic learning by centering the agency and lived experiences of marginalized groups...

London’s civic ceremonies marked the relationships between the mayors and the crown, but also between denizens and their government, gild wardens and members, masters and apprentic...

Abstract Aesthetics is about some special and unusual ways of experiencing the world. Not just artworks, but also nature and ordinary objects. But then if we apply t...

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

Abstract Memes, Monsters, and the Digital Grotesque is a comprehensive exploration of grotesque aesthetics that have pervaded the post-digital era. This critical exa...

Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism. ...

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagementis an indispensable resource for archaeologists and the communities in which they work. The authors are intensely committed to developing e...