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The Beauty of Games
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- ISBN
- 9780262048538
- Publication Name
- Beauty of Games
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Series
- Playful Thinking Ser.
- Type
- Language Course
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought. Are games art? This question is a dominant mode of thinking about games and play in the twenty-first century, but it is fundamentally the wrong question. Instead, Frank Lantz proposes in his provocative new book, The Beauty of Games , that we think about games and how they create meaning through the lens of the aesthetic. We should think of games, he writes, the same way we think about literature, theater, or music-as a form that ranges from deep and profound to easy and disposable, and everything in between. Games are the aesthetic form of interactive systems, a set of possibilities connected by rules of cause and effect. In this book, Lantz analyzes games from chess to poker to tennis to understand how games create beauty and evoke a deeper meaning. He suggests that we think of games not only as hyper-modern objects but also as forms within the ancient context of artistic production, encompassing all of the nebulous and ephemeral qualities of the aesthetic experience.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262048531
ISBN-13
9780262048538
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038269900
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Beauty of Games
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Series
Playful Thinking Ser.
Type
Language Course
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg1376.K58 2017
Reviews
"Lantz invites the reader to think about what games (and other mediums) do to us, whether it's profound, pointless, or a bit of both. Forget whether or not games are art. What do they make you feel?" -- Polygon "In The Beauty of Games , Frank Lantz at once avoids and aims for the heart of the 'Is it art?' debate by considering video games from within 'the aesthetic domain.'" -- The LA Review of Books
Table of Content
On Thinking Playfully ix Introduction: Serpentes, the Fruit of Knowledge 1 1 Games as an Aesthetic Form 7 2 Life and Death and Middle Pair 51 3 Hearts and Minds 89 4 Games, Systems, and the World 129 Notes 165 Index 169
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
History & Criticism, Serbian & Croatian, Board Games, Aesthetics, Czech
Lccn
2022-054796
Dewey Decimal
790.01
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Design, Foreign Language Study, Games & Activities, Philosophy
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