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Author Moore, Kathryn (Kathryn J.)

Title Overlooking the visual : demystifying the art of design / Kathryn Moore
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Introduction -- The sensory interface and other myths and legends -- Teaching the unknowable -- Aesthetics: the truth, the whole truth and universal truth -- Objectivity without neutrality -- Studied ignorance -- Seeing is believing -- Theory into practice
Summary "Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that design is impossible to teach? This book challenges the traditional foundations of perception and takes an imaginative, radical approach, setting itself apart from the traditions of analytical philosophy, evolutionary psychology, and phenomenology which underpin much of current design theory and discourse. The new definition of perception produces startling consequences for conceptions of language, intelligence, meaning, the senses, emotions and subjectivity. This is an innovative, fresh view on design and how we can improve it for both practitioners and students in the architecture and design fields as well as philosophers."--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Design -- Philosophy
ART -- Design -- General.
Design -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134393572
9780203167656
0203167651
1134393571