Functional beauty

• Main Authors: Parsons, Glenn (Author), Carlson, Allen, 1943- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Edition: 1st pub.
• Subjects: krása > filozofické aspekty; estetika; beauty > philosophical aspects; aesthetics; studie; studies
• ISBN: 9780199205240
• Physical Description: xiv, 255 s. ; 23 cm

Table of Contents:

• Functional beauty in the aesthetic tradition
• Functional beauty in contemporary aesthetic theory
• Indeterminacy and the concept of function
• Function and form
• Nature and environment
• Architecture and the built environment
• Artefacts and everyday aesthetics
• The functions of art