THE BEAUTY OF GAMES

THE BEAUTY OF GAMESFrom the press: 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

A dizzying freakologic tour as much as a tour de force of imagination

Machiavelli reveals nothing less than the secrets of power: how to gain it

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” Moving from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to the Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali

Working Together

a key and controversial work in Calle’s oeuvre

the book balances between being an artist book and a catalogue

collecting contributions by artists

and nor is their order and chronology

The work’s almost occult appeal arises from the perception that if Angela dies

From the press: These poems show us new ways to think

Written in a style as surprising and eclectic as a night on the rails—packed with inside jokes and allusions that extend from Arthur Rimbaud to hip-hop and beyond—Driver takes us deep into the world of the train