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The Sympathy of Things - Ruskin and the Ecology of Design (Paperback)
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The Sympathy of Things - Ruskin and the Ecology of Design (Paperback)
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'If 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. Revised
throughout, and a new foreword by philosopher Brian Massumi, this
is a new edition of a seminal work which has drawn praise from
fields as diverse as digital architecture and speculative realism,
and will continue to be influential as it wrests Ruskin's ideas out
of the Victorian era and reconstructs them for the modern age.
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