Rethinking Aesthetics : The Role of Body in Design Paperback / softback
Edited by Ritu Bhatt
Paperback / softback
Description
Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design.
These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday life, thanks to recent discoveries by researchers in neuroscience, phenomenology, somatics, and analytic philosophy of the mind, who have made the correlations between aesthetic cognition, the human body, and everyday life much clearer.
The essays, by Yuriko Saito, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Richard Shusterman, among others, range from an integrated mind-body approach to chair design, to Zen Buddhist notions of mindfulness, to theoretical accounts of existential relationships with buildings, to present a full spectrum of possible inquiries.
By placing the body in the center of design, Rethinking Aesthetics opens new directions for rethinking the limits of both essentialism and skepticism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 17 Line drawings, black and white; 32 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/02/2013
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- ISBN:9780415534758
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages, 17 Line drawings, black and white; 32 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/02/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415534758
