Design and Aesthetics in Wood
Design and Aesthetics in Wood

Author: Eric A. Anderson

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780873952163

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This book is the result of a symposium on "Design and Aesthetics in Wood," which was held at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., 7-9 November 1967. Concurrent with the conference was an exhibition, sponsored by the College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the School of Art, in which the art objects and industrial products illustrated here were a part.

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Publisher: Springer Nature

Published:

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 9464635169

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Typology
Typology

Author: Steven Heller

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1999-06

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780811823081

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Organized by historical era and country of origin, each section of this dynamic compendium introduces the culture and aesthetics of the period, discusses how individual styles developed, and offers insights into the artistry of key typographers and foundries. 300 full-color illustrations.

A Return to Aesthetics
A Return to Aesthetics

Author: Jonathan Loesberg

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780804751162

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A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. The author argues for the value of these concepts by recovering them through a historical reinterpretation of their meaning prior to their distortion by twentieth-century formalism. Loesberg then applies these concepts to a discussion of two of the most significant critics of the ideology of Enlightenment, Foucault and Bourdieu. He argues that understanding the role of aesthetics in the postmodern critique of Enlightenment will get us out of the intellectual impasse wherein numbingly repeated attacks upon postmodernism as self-contradictory match numbingly repeated defenses. Construing postmodern critiques as examples of aesthetic reseeing gives us a new understanding of the postmodern critique of the Enlightenment.