The Sympathy of Things

by Spuybroek, Lars

• ISBN13: 9789056628277
• ISBN10: 9056628275
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

"We have to find our way back to beauty," Lars Spuybroek writes in the introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this highly original book, he argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century - the age in which the sublime turned from an art category into a technological reality. It leads Spuybroek back to the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century English art critic John Ruskin, from which he distills important clues for our time.

Author Biography

Lars Spuybroek is Professor of Architectural Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of The Architecture of Continuity (2008) and Research Design: Textile Tectonics (2011).

Table of Contents

preface	p. 7
the digital nature of gothic	p. 11
Raskin: The Nature of Gothic	p. 17
Craft and Code	p. 48
I Believe in Things	p. 61
the matter of ornament	p. 75
Ruskin: Wall Veil and Earth Veil	p. 78
An Abstract Materialism	p. 89
Tessellation Ornament and Ribbon Ornament	p. 102
Some Hints on Pattern Designing	p. 134
abstraction and sympathy	p. 145
The Mosaic of Experience	p. 148
The Fabric of Sympathy	p. 159
Lipps's Sympathy and Worringer's Empathy	p. 177
The Veil is the Anti-Eidos	p. 201
the radical picturesque	p. 207
Forms and Forces	p. 210
Ruskin: The Parasitical Sublime	p. 222
Sublime Things	p. 243
The Technological Wild	p. 261
the ecology of design	p. 269
Ruskin: Beauty is the End	p. 280
A Veil of Strange Intermediate Being	p. 306
acknowledgments	p. 335
list of illustrations	p. 336
notes	p. 339
bibliography	p. 367
index	p. 386
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