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Author Dutta, Arindam.

Title The bureaucracy of beauty : design in the age of its global reproducibility / Arindam Dutta
Published New York : Routledge, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Front cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Department of Science and Art: The Aesthetic in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility -- CHAPTER 1. Empire " ... in a Fit of Absence of Mind": Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism -- CHAPTER 2. Architecture Upside Down: The Morphotrophy of Value -- CHAPTER 3. "Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought": Drawing at the Origin -- CHAPTER 4. Of AbOriginal and CopyRight -- CHAPTER 5. Cyborg/Artisan: On a Certain Asymmetry Deriving from the Binary System;or, Notes on a Moment in the Development of a Taylorist Feudalism -- CHAPTER 6. Congress: Gandhi at the World Exhibitions -- CHAPTER 7. Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History -- POSTSCRIPT: Infinite Justice: An Architectural Coda -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Index -- Back cover -- Last Page
Summary Offering a study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, this book converges on the issues of globalisation. It explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, and competing philosophies of aesthetics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index
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Subject Great Britain. Department of Science and Art -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Department of Science and Art fast
Subject Architectural design -- India -- History
Nationalism -- India -- History
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Architectural design
British colonies
Colonial influence
Cultural policy
Economic policy
Nationalism
SUBJECT India -- Cultural policy -- History
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056642
India -- Colonial influence
Subject India
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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