{"product_id":"worlds-of-appearance-an-introduction-to-aesthetics-in-practice","title":"Worlds of Appearance: An Introduction to Aesthetics in Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn accessible primer on aesthetics in art and everyday life, written by artist and scholar Walead Beshty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this general guide to the foundations of aesthetics, Walead Beshty introduces the complexities of aesthetics through succinct language and real-world examples, presenting an introductory theory of how the world becomes known to us through our senses and how that knowledge in turn builds our experience of everything around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsidering aesthetics on both a practical and a theoretical level, Worlds of Appearance asserts that art and aesthetics are inherently political, composing a fundamental form of communication and a means by which we can imagine the very nature of what can be experienced, sensed, and expressed. Aesthetics, argues Beshty, is a corporeal and material area of study, one that reveals how we perceive the world and how we develop technologies in response. With this book, he aims to fill a gap in existing writing about aesthetics, offering a clear explanation of how it acts as a dynamic force in our daily lives, how it functions on a concrete level, and how we can understand its possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with how we transform a flood of sensations into a coherent perception of the world, the book considers the basics of aesthetic production and reception, then moves on to look at specific examples of aesthetics in practice, with a focus on art, architecture, and performance. It concludes by laying out how aesthetic literacy is key to understanding the production of wide-ranging aspects of our lives, including digitization, mass media, systems of communications, and power relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52603658698972,"sku":"26W1117","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/2026Q411307.jpg?v=1794518554","url":"https:\/\/stoutbooks.com\/products\/worlds-of-appearance-an-introduction-to-aesthetics-in-practice","provider":"William Stout Architectural Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}