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The bureaucracy of beauty : design in the age of its global reproducibility / Arindam Dutta.
Fine Arts Library - Reserve DS428 .D85 2007
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dutta, Arindam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Department of Science and Art.
- Colonial influence.
- History.
- Architectural design.
- Cultural policy.
- India--Cultural policy--History.
- India.
- Architectural design--India--History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Economic policy.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Economic policy.
- Great Britain. Department of Science and Art--History.
- Nationalism--India--History.
- Nationalism.
- India--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Summary:
- The Bureaucracy of Beauty, a wide-ranging work of cultural theory, connects architectural history with the past and present of empire. As his central focus, Dutta takes The Department of Science and Arts, detailing its influence on museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. In an expansive analysis, Dutta explores the development of intellectual property laws, design pedagogy, the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy, and competing philosophies of aesthetics. Ignited by engagements with Benjamin, Marx, Adam Smith, Kant, and Gandhi, this book offers a rich study in the history of ideas. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers theory of how things-big things-change.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Department of Science and Art: The Aesthetic in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility 1
- Chapter 1 Empire "...in a Fit of Absence of Mind": Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism 39
- Chapter 2 Architecture Upside Down: The Morphotropy of Value 79
- Chapter 3 "Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought": Drawing at the Origin 119
- Chapter 4 Of AbOriginal and CopyRight 155
- Chapter 5 Cyborg/Artisan: On a Certain Asymmetry Deriving from the Binary System; or, Notes on a Moment in the Development of a Taylorist Feudalism 191
- Chapter 6 Congress: Gandhi at the World Exhibitions 235
- Chapter 7 Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History 279
- Postscript: Infinite Justice: An Architectural Coda 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415979196
- 041597920X
- 9780415979191
- 9780415979207
- OCLC:
- 71210195
- Publisher Number:
- 9780415979191
- 9780415979207
- Online:
- Publisher description
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