Mark Foster Gage
Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts
- ISBN 13:
- 9780393733495
- author:
- Mark Foster Gage
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2012
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions:
- 20.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Genre:
- Popular Philosophy
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design brings together pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history. This collection features selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians, spanning two millennia.
Mark Foster Gage provides an introduction and critical headnotes to explain the importance of each text, offering a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design.
In an era defined by sumptuous visuality, this collection highlights the concepts of beauty and visual sensation as essential standards in design practice across disciplines, making it a valuable resource for the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.
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