1st Edition
The Bureaucracy of Beauty Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility
By Arindam Dutta
Copyright 2007
378 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
378 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
378 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction The Department of Science and Art; 1: Empire “… in a Fit of Absence of Mind”; 2: Architecture Upside Down; 3: “Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought”; 4: Of AbOriginal and CopyRight; 5: Cyborg/Artisan; 6: Congress; 7: Unmaking Beauty
Biography
Arindam Dutta is the Clarance H. Blackall Associate Professor of Architectural History.
