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Arindam Dutta - The Bureaucracy of Beauty. Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility.  - 9780415979207 - V9780415979207
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The Bureaucracy of Beauty. Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility.

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Description for The Bureaucracy of Beauty. Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility. paperback. Dealing with cultural theory, this work aims to connect literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. It explores the development of international laws of intellectual property, ideas of design pedagogy, the technological distinction between craft and industry, and more. Num Pages: 378 pages, 37 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.

The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's Department of Science and Arts, a venture organized by the Board of Trade, and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums, design schools, and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the book's literal ... Read more

A rich study in the history of ideas, of design and architecture, and of cultural politics, The Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America, The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how things - big things -change.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415979207
SKU
V9780415979207
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About Arindam Dutta
Arindam Dutta is the Clarance H. Blackall Associate Professor of Architectural History.

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