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Rethinking Aesthetics.

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 every...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bhatt, Ritu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; rethinking aesthetics: the role of body in design; Copyright; contents; list of image credits; list of contributors; acknowledgements; Introduction rethinking aesthetics: the role of body in design; PART ONE role of aesthetic response in everyday life; 1 everyday aesthetics of embodiment; 2 dewey's big idea for aesthetics; 3 attention and imaginative engagement in marcel breuer's atlanta public library; 4 from buildings to architecture: construing nelson goodman's aesthetics; 5 the extended self: tacit knowing and place-identity.
  • PART TWO modes of aesthetic response: tacit perception and somatic consciousness6 somatics and aesthetics: the role of body in design; 7 the moral dimension of japanese aesthetics; 8 traditional knowledge for contemporary uses: an analysis of everyday practices of self-help in architecture; 9 environmental embodiment, merleau-ponty, and bill hillier's theory of space syntax: toward a phenomenology of people-in-place; 10 mental and existential ecology; index.