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041			_aeng
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100			_aSpuybroek, Lars _912754
245			_aSympathy of things: _bRuskin and the ecology of design / _cLars Spuybroek
250			_arev. ed.
260			_bBloomsbury Academic, _c2016. _aLondon:
300			_axxv, 321 p.
520			_aIf there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digital, with art history, architecture, and craft, Spuybroek explores the romantic notion of 'sympathy', a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, re-evaluating it as the driving force of the twenty-first century aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century, but which Spuybroek argues to be central to contemporary aesthetics and design.
650			_aAR _912755
650			_aRuskin _920365
650			_aDesign _xPhilosophy. _920366
650			_aAesthetics _xPhilosophy. _920367
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