Rethinking decoration : pleasure and ideology in the visual arts / David Brett.
Rethinking decoration : pleasure and ideology in the visual arts / David Brett.
Rethinking decoration : pleasure and ideology in the visual arts / David Brett.
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Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N745.01/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
1. Discourse & experience -- 2. Touching & seeing -- 3. Thresholds & transitions -- 4. Sociability & pleasure -- 5. The refusal -- 6. Toward a poetics of workmanship -- 7. The task of rethinking : an afterword.
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Publisher
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"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...
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Rethinking decoration : pleasure and ideology in the visual arts / David Brett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N745.01/1
Record Identifier
74VKdBr6AZAg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKdBr6AZAg
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ISBN
052183676X (hardback : alk. paper)
DDC
745.01
MMS ID
991020089909702626
