Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean? Ten Definitions

Aesthetics, in its totality of meanings, is about where your mind goes--conceptually, analytically, imaginatively--when you engage with things designed, artistic, and the like. This book is about building a deeper understanding of this rangy mental terrain so that you can more productively think about and discuss aesthetic phenomena and experience in your life and in your work. Until now theoretical aesthetics has been a rather unwieldy and impractical subject. This lucid and easy-to-read book--rendered in a graphically engaging format--should be of genuine value to museum-goers, professional artists and designers, and students of the arts and crafts. This book should be of particular interest to those who have enjoyed Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, also by Leonard Koren.

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Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean? Ten Definitions

Author

Leonard Koren

Publisher

Imperfect Publishing

Format

Paperback

Pages

96

Size

9.5 x 5.75 Inches

ISBN

9780981484617

About the author

Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren trained as an artist and architect. In 1976 he created WET: THE MAGAZINE OF GOURMET BATHING, an avant-garde publication influential in the development of postmodern aesthetics. Subsequently Koren has written numerous books including WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS, the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.