Aesthetic theory :  essential texts for architecture and design / 
edited with commentary by Mark Foster Gage ; book design by Jonathan D. Lippincott ; page makeup by Ken Gross ; production manager Leeann Graham. 
 - First edition. 
 - 336 pages ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index (pages 325-336). 
<br/><br/>1. Plato. 2. Aristotle. 3. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. 4. Leon Battista Alberti. 5. Immanuel Kant. 6. Edmund Burke. 7. Canrad Fiedler. 8. Friedrich Nietzsche. 9. Oscar Wilde. 10. Henri Bergson. 11. Clive Bell. 12. Geoffrey Scott. 13. Walter Benjamin. 14. Georges Bataille. 15. Susan Sontag. 16. Frederic Jameson. 17. Elaine Scarry. 18. Alexander Nehamas. 19. Nick Zangwill. 20. David Freedberg and Vittorio Gallese. 
<br/><br/> A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes.<br/><br/>This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:<br/><br/>Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti • Kant • Burke • Fiedler • Nietzsche • Wilde • Bergson • Bell • Scott • Benjamin • Bataille • Sontag • Jameson • Scarry • Nehamas • Zangwill • Freedberg and Gallese<br/><br/>With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.  https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393733495-aesthetic-theory 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393733495 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aesthetics<br/>Design--Philosophy<br/>Architecture--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BH39     / .A2855 2011