{"product_id":"9781474243865","title":"The Sympathy of Things : Ruskin and the Ecology of Design","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sympathy of Things\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lars Spuybroek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathy of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpuybroek 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.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“... the term 'brilliant' is often misused in reviews, but the opening chapter on 'the digital nature of gothic' is truly scintillating ...” —\u003ci\u003eArchitectural Research Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a dazzling, provocative, baffling, and sometimes vexing manifesto. \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathy of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable book.” —\u003ci\u003eCarlyle Studies Annual\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“... hundreds of threads that make an astonishingly rich tapestry ... Ruskin has at last found an interpreter with the breadth of learning and a poetic imagination to make his perceptions relevant to our own day.\u003cbr\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eArchitectural Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“... exhilarating to watch elements of Ruskin's thought being taken on ... \u003ci\u003eThe Sympathy of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is energetic, well written and full of examples.” —\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781474243865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40647647166670,"sku":"9781474243865","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_b230bb4d-897c-4d5e-9c60-e2d37a1837f0.jpg?v=1639187010","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781474243865","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}