Rethinking Decoration: Pleasure and Ideology in the Visual Arts.
Rethinking Decoration: Pleasure and Ideology in the Visual Arts.
$140.00
Brett, David.
Cambridge University Press. New York, 2005.
Book ID: 67002
This book offers theoretical and practical reinterpretations of the decorative by addressing a neglected topic: the significance of decoration. Concerned with the central problem of taste, David Brett asks how individual pleasure and social function suffuse one another, drawing examples from architecture, fashion, textiles, ceramics, and the whole domain of visual and plastic arts. Using theoretical propositions derived from a critical approach to the concept of aesthetic experience, and from study of perceptual psychology and psychoanalytic theory.
HB. / 290pp. / B&W illus. / English
