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Aesthetics of Design

Jane Forsey
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      The Aesthetics of Design offers the first full treatment of design in the field of philosophical aesthetics. Aesthetic theory has traditionally occupied itself with fine art in all its forms, sometimes with craft, and often with notions of beauty and sublimity in art and nature. In so doing, it has largely ignored the quotidian and familiar objects and experiences that make up our daily lives. Yet how we interact with design involves aesthetic choices andjudgements as well as practical, cognitive and moral considerations. This work challenges the discipline to broaden its scope to include design, and illustrates how aesthetics helps define our human concerns.Subjecting design to as rigorous a treatment as any other aesthetic object exposes it to three main challenges that form the core of this book. First, design must be distinguished from art and craft as a unique kind of object meriting separate philosophical attention, and is here defined in part by its functional qualities. Second, the experience of design must be defended as having a particularly aesthetic nature. Here Forsey adapts the Kantian notion of dependent beauty to provide a model forour appreciation of design as different from our judgements of art, craft and natural beauty. Finally, design is important for aesthetics and philosophy as a whole in that it is implicated in broader human concerns. Forsey situates her theory of design as a constructive contribution to the recentmovement of Everyday Aesthetics, which seeks to re-enfranchise philosophical aesthetics as an important part of philosophy at large.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jane Forsey EAN: 9780190600426 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 314 g HEIGHT: 211 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-03-31 CITY: GENRE: ART / Criticism & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics WIDTH: 142 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of art, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Philosophy: aesthetics

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      Jane Forsey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg.
      The Aesthetics of Design offers the first full treatment of design in the field of philosophical aesthetics. Aesthetic theory has traditionally occupied itself with fine art in all its forms, sometimes with craft, and often with notions of beauty and sublimity in art and nature. In so doing, it has largely ignored the quotidian and familiar objects and experiences that make up our daily lives. Yet how we interact with design involves aesthetic choices andjudgements as well as practical, cognitive and moral considerations. This work challenges the discipline to broaden its scope to include design, and illustrates how aesthetics helps define our human concerns.Subjecting design to as rigorous a treatment as any other aesthetic object exposes it to three main challenges that form the core of this book. First, design must be distinguished from art and craft as a unique kind of object meriting separate philosophical attention, and is here defined in part by its functional qualities. Second, the experience of design must be defended as having a particularly aesthetic nature. Here Forsey adapts the Kantian notion of dependent beauty to provide a model forour appreciation of design as different from our judgements of art, craft and natural beauty. Finally, design is important for aesthetics and philosophy as a whole in that it is implicated in broader human concerns. Forsey situates her theory of design as a constructive contribution to the recentmovement of Everyday Aesthetics, which seeks to re-enfranchise philosophical aesthetics as an important part of philosophy at large.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jane Forsey EAN: 9780190600426 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 314 g HEIGHT: 211 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-03-31 CITY: GENRE: ART / Criticism & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics WIDTH: 142 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of art, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Philosophy: aesthetics

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      Jane Forsey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg.

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