Title & Author:

Vital beauty : reclaiming aesthetics in the tangle of technology and nature / eds. Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, Lars Spuybroek.

Publication:

Rotterdam : V2 Pub. : NAI, ©2012.

Description:

252 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Vital beauty / Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, Lars Spuybroek -- Lines and the weather / Tim Ingold -- The ages of beauty : revisiting Hartshorne's diagram of aesthetic values / Lars Spuybroek -- Beauty as interaction / Wendy Steiner -- The life of art, or Pygmalion and Medusa / Caroline van Eck -- The beauty of agency art / Arjen Mulder -- Entering the "circles of vitality" : beauty, sympathy, and fellowship / Mark Frost -- Of relative vital beauty / John Ruskin -- Teleological grounds / Gustav Fechner ; [translated by Sebastian Olma] -- Their silence is a gift / George Gessert -- Vitality, forms, or how we know that we are alive / Daniel N. Stern -- Lured and fatherless wasps, sputniks and other living odradeks : hints of a junk aesthetic / Thierry Bardini.
The Gustav Fechner excerpt is translated from the German.

Summary:

In this book, leading philosophers, anthropologists, political thinkers and artists take a closer look at what the idea of beauty can mean to their disciplines, in an effort to redefine what beauty is and what it means to design practice and art. The conception of beauty presented in Vital Beautyaims to draw a line under a century filled with excessive worship of the sublime in art and architecture. Vital beauty, in this book, is conceived as a form of beauty that is imperfect and impure. Over 150 years ago, British art critic John Ruskin came up with the concept and thereby liberated beauty from classical perfection and harmony. In this he acknowledged the fact that we live in a world of currents and forces and that these forces bring forth objects. Vital beauty might just be the ideal label for the combination of the vitality of material and information flows, and the beautiful mountains, clouds, books and edifices that they produce.

ISBN:

9789056628567 (pbk.)
9056628569 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Political and social views.
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Aesthetics.
Political and social views.
Kunst
Schönheit
Natur

Added entries:

Brouwer, Joke, editor.
Mulder, Arjen, editor.
Spuybroek, Lars, editor.

Reclaiming aesthetics in the tangle of technology and nature

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284031
Call No.: BIB 222627
Status: Available