Title & Author:

The hand and the soul : aesthetics and ethics in architecture and art / edited by Sanda Iliescu.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Description:

x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Difficulties and dilemmas. The convergence of ethics and aesthetics : a genealogical, pragmatist perspective / Richard Shusterman -- Ethics and aesthetics after modernism and postmodernism / Joan Ockman -- Ethics, autonomy, and refusal / Howard Singerman -- Overlaps : art and architecture. Notes on an ethical context for fragmentation, continuous and multiple grounds, and other open fields of action / Robin Dripps -- Extraordinarily real : ethics, aesthetics, and the promise of modern architecture / Nathaniel Coleman -- The sense of the senses and the ethos of an aesthetic pursuit / Thomas Berding -- Overlaps : ecology and aesthetics. Architecture, aesthetics, and the public health / Steven A. Moore -- Fire wall : a meditation on architectural boundaries / William Sherman -- Re-earthing cities : aesthetics, ethics, and ecology in city building / Timothy Beatley -- Open works : landscape architecture, architecture, and art. Gardens, landscape, nature : Duisburg-Nord, Germany / Elissa Rosenberg -- A case for openness : ethical and aesthetic intentions in the design of MASS MoCA / Phoebe Crisman -- Looking at LeWitt : notes on the "open" aesthetic experience / Sanda Iliescu -- Afterword : replacement / W.G. Clark -- Notes on contributors -- Illustration credits -- Index.

Summary:

"The essays in [book title] explore the question of how ethical ideas guiding the design process--a concern for the environment or for social justice--relate to the beauty of our buildings, cities, and artworks. The book presents a range of viewpoints and does not ignore the perils of associating ethics and aesthetics. Yet the majority of contributiors--among them historians and theorists, as well as practicing designers and artists--argue passionately in defense of the idea that the good and the beautiful can and should be able to find a common ground in the design disciplines."--Back cover.

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ISBN:

9780813927602 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813927609 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813927725 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0813927722 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Moral and ethical aspects.
Art Moral and ethical aspects.
Architecture Aspect moral.
Art Aspect moral.
Architektur
Ethik
Ästhetik

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Iliescu, Sanda, 1959-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262039
Call No.: BIB 193095
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available