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What's wrong with plastic trees? : artifice and authenticity in design

Author: Martin H Krieger
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Krieger, Martin H.
What's wrong with plastic trees?
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)604190312
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Martin H Krieger
ISBN: 027596776X 9780275967765
OCLC Number: 42072121
Description: xxi, 157 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Preface: Why God and Hegel and Paintings When Talking About Design? xiii --
Part 1 Design of Our World --
1. Arguments from Design 3 --
2. Composition and Repetition as Explanation 25 --
3. Exploration and Discipline as Ways of Designing 41 --
Part 2 Artifice and Authenticity --
4. Authenticity, Rarity, and Plasticity as the Design of Nature 63 --
5. Manufacture of the Sacred, the Reenactment of Transcendence, and the Temptations of Design 75 --
6. Real Thing in Design 95 --
7. Twenty Questions, Commodification, and Friendly Monsters 113.
Responsibility: Martin H. Krieger.

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