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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Glenn Parsons; Allen Carlson; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 9780199205240 0199205248 9780199659319 0199659311 |
OCLC Number: | 907423434 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics Prize 2009. |
Description: | XIII, [1], 255 s. ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1. Functional Beauty in the Aesthetic Tradition ; 2. Functional Beauty in Contemporary Aesthetic Theory ; 3. Indeterminacy and the Concept of Function ; 4. Function and Form ; 5. Nature and Environment ; 6. Architecture and the Built Environment ; 7. Artefacts and Everyday Aesthetics ; 8. The Functions of Art ; 9. Conclusion |
Responsibility: | Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson. |
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a clear-headed, smart, vigorous defence of a new and very important theoretical position in philosophical aesthetics ... This book is a landmark study of an important subject and the one that anyone interested in the way in which aesthetic judgments are made - whether in art, in nature, or in everyday life - should read. * Environmental Values * Review from previous edition a highly original contribution to a neglected topic in aesthetics ... essential reading for anyone who wishes to think about this topic. * The Philosophical Quarterly * Read more...
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