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  1. Why is Mr W. Laughing? (2017)

    Director
    Jana Papenbroock
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £50.00

    Documentary which takes us on a collaborative journey through the pictorial worlds of three artists with different disabilities. The film, which focuses on their aesthetic obsessions, uses an eclectic mix of...

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  2. What is Beauty? (2012)

    Director
    Neil Crombie
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

    Artist and writer Matthew Collings presents an exploration of the subject of beauty in art, as he wonders if beauty is only in the eye of the beholder, or if there is something more universal we can say...

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  3. Jacques Ranciere and Peter Sloterdijk Debate Aesthetics and Modernity (2008)

    Subject
    Languages; Philosophy

    This podcast provides a chance to hear two leading continental thinkers and public intellectuals debating the aesthetic both as a way of understanding the modern world and as a problematic category within...

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  4. Great Ideas of Philosophy, Series (7 Programmes) (2006)

    Subject
    Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 48 minutes each), £39.95 each £219.95 set

    This series investigates core questions in philosophy, such as: Why is there something rather than nothing? What is right action? And what do we mean when we talk about the ‘mind’? Some of the world’s...

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  5. Marcel Duchamp: The Large Glass and Readymades/Film Montage: The Projection of Modernity (2005)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 50 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    MARCEL DUCHAMP: THE LARGE GLASS AND READYMADES looks at details of the work of Marcel Duchamp who was a central figure in 20th century art. Several of his pieces such as ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’,...

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  6. Tastes of Europe: Are There National Aesthetics in Theatre? (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. S-VHS. col. ? min.

    A discussion on European theatre recorded at the Gate theatre in London, on 28 March 1996 as part of the Gate Biennale, a celebration of contemporary European theatre. Karen Johnson of the Directors Guild of...

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  7. Chemistry of Creativity, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Science Production Group
    Subject
    Art; Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the relationship between chemistry and aesthetics. First questions society’s perception of the chemist and chemistry as realms which exclude art. An installation artist and Nobel Prize-winning...

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  8. Intellectuals and the New Media (1994 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Esa Saarinen, Sadie Plant, John Wyver and John Browning consider the future of the book and the notion of the academy. They discuss the role and responsibility of the intellectual in the digital age, and the...

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  9. Seduced and Abandoned: The Colonisation of Cyberspace (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Art; Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Bruce Sterling, author of ‘The Hacker Crackdown’, looks at institutional attempts to control the Internet. Joan Truckenbrod, lecturer in telecommunications arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, discusses...

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  10. Seduced and Abandoned: The Feminine Cyberspace (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Sadie Plant argues that cyberspace is a potentially radical space which uses modes of thinking and operating that have traditionally been seen as female. She also considers the relationship between...

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