Peter Fischli and David Weiss are a Swiss artistic duo who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their internationally renowned sculpture, video and photographic works look at everyday life and its conceptions of beauty and pleasure, forming an innocent, unpredictable world utterly unique in contemporary art.

Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, 'The Unknown Masterpiece' appears, as Balzac intended with 'Gambara', a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.

A beautifully bound and produced catalogue of the Sean Scully show at the National Gallery of Australia.

Argues that aesthetic considerations no longer play a central role in the experience and critique of art. Instead art addresses us in our humanity, as men and women who seek meaning in the unnatural wonders of art, a meaning that philosophy and religion are unable to provide.

Shows how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. This book shows that it wasn't until the invention of Pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified.

Exploring how spirituality influenced artists in the late 20th century and bringing together an intergenerational group of artists from North, Central, and South America, this book reveals the implications of ritualized practice in contemporary art.

Explores the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. This book introduces the concept of narrative sentences, in which an event is described with reference to later events and discusses why such sentences cannot be understood until the later event happens. It compares narrative and scientific explanation.

Two books housed in a slipcase. Since 1993 Arthur Danto has written four texts about Scully's work, ranging from catalogue texts for some of his most significant exhibitions to a piece in The Nation magazine. They are brought together here for the first time in a work which traces the history and development of this major artist in the writings of one of America's leading art critics. Includes 100

Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. This book includes five essays which not only enhances our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy but also it responds to the misunderstandings that continue to muddy his intellectual reputation.

Addressing philosophical questions of mental representation, this title presents a different approach to some of the most enduring topics in philosophy. This title deals with the nature of description, the status of the external world, action theory, the philosophy of history, and the philosophical status of psychoanalytic explanation.

Focuses on the economic collapse of 1997, and the effect on the status of East Asia as an economic power. The author looks at how currency depreciations, personal and state indebtedness, mass unemployment and rioting brought the paternalistic capitalist phase to an end in Asia, and analyzes Asia's complex recovery and future challenges.

Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.

Includes essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and art through a number of cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms.

Devoted to Tom Friedman's body of work over the years, this book features over 250 colour illustrations and encompasses 200 artworks that reflect Friedman's humour, his painstaking craftsmanship, and the unending inventiveness that distinguishes his work.

A discussion of the space between language and the world which has resulted in the problems of philosophy and theories of knowledge.

Awarded the 1986 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. This work on colour features a chapter, 'Further Thoughts: 1993', in which the author revisits the dispute between colour objectivists and subjectivists from the perspective of the ecology, genetics, and evolution of colour vision.