Aesthetic theory : essential texts / edited by Mark Foster Gage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gage, Mark Foster.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Design--Philosophy.

Design.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

336 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

In this anthology, Gage (Yale U. School of Architecture) compiles historic and contemporary readings relating design as a cultural construct in its aesthetic qualities and influences to large-scale/ spatial aspects of the built environment and all varieties of design. Chronologically ordered, individually introduced selections draw from philosophy (e.g., Plato's Symposium); art history (Clive Bell's "Art"); architectural practice (Pollio's Ten Books on Architecture); literary criticism (Sontag's "On Style"); critical theory; Renaissance scholarship (G. Scott's The Architecture of Humanism); and cognitive neuroscience (F. Jamison's "Cognitive Mapping"). Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

0393733491

9780393733495

OCLC:

706023463

Publisher Number:

99947447974