Aesthetic theory essential texts /
Aesthetic theory essential texts / [Book] :
edited by Mark Foster Gage.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2011.
- 336 p. ; 21 cm.
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti • Kant • Burke • Fiedler • Nietzsche • Wilde • Bergson • Bell • Scott • Benjamin • Bataille • Sontag • Jameson • Scarry • Nehamas • Zangwill • Freedberg and Gallese With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.
All. All
0393733491 (pbk.) 9780393733495 (pbk.)
Aesthetics.
Design--Philosophy.
Architecture--Philosophy.
Software architecture.--Business--Data processing
System design.--Software architecture
Computer architecture--Software engineering
Computer software
111 .85
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti • Kant • Burke • Fiedler • Nietzsche • Wilde • Bergson • Bell • Scott • Benjamin • Bataille • Sontag • Jameson • Scarry • Nehamas • Zangwill • Freedberg and Gallese With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.
All. All
0393733491 (pbk.) 9780393733495 (pbk.)
Aesthetics.
Design--Philosophy.
Architecture--Philosophy.
Software architecture.--Business--Data processing
System design.--Software architecture
Computer architecture--Software engineering
Computer software
111 .85