Title & Author:

Aesthetic theory : essential texts : for architecture and design / edited with commentary by Mark Foster Gage.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.

Description:

336 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:
"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"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Plato : from Symposium ; from Phaedo ; from Timaeus -- 2. Aristotle : from Metaphysics ; from Poetics ; from Politics ; from Eudemian Ethics ; from Nicomachean Ethics -- 3. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio : from Ten Books on Architecture -- 4. Leon Battista Alberti : from De Re Aedificatoria -- 5. Immanuel Kant : from The Critique of Judgement -- 6. Edmund Burke : from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful -- 7. Conrad Fiedler : from On Judging Works of Visual Art -- 8. Friedrich Nietzsche : from The Birth of Tragedy ; from Human, All Too Human -- 9. Oscar Wilde : from The Picture of Dorian Gray -- 10. Henri Bergson : from Creative Evolution ; from Introduction to Metaphysics -- 11. Clive Bell : from Art -- 12. Geoffrey Scott : from The Architecture of Humanism: a Study in the History of Taste -- 13. Walter Benjamin : from The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- 14. Georges Bataille : from "The Language of Flowers" ; from Erotism -- 15. Susan Sontag : "On Style" -- 16. Frederic Jameson : "Cognitive Mapping" -- 17. Elaine Scarry : from On Beauty and Being Just -- 18. Alexander Nehamas : from Only a Promise of Happiness: the Place of Beauty in a World of Art -- 19. Nick Zangwill : from Beauty -- 20. David Freedberg and Vittorio Gallese : from Motion, Emotion and Empathy in Esthetic Experience.

Summary:

"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 disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century."--Page 4 of cover

ISBN:

9780393733495 (pbk.)
0393733491 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aesthetics.
Design Philosophy.
Architecture Philosophy.
Design Philosophie.

Added entries:

Gage, Mark Foster.
Gage, Mark
Plato
Aristotle
Vitruvius Pollio
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Fiedler, Conrad, 1841-1895
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941
Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.
Scott, Geoffrey, 1885-1929
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
Jameson, Fredric
Scarry, Elaine.
Nehamas, Alexander, 1946-
Zangwill, Nick.
Freedberg, David.
Gallese, Vittorio

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275538
Call No.: BIB 209808
Status: Available