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Dutta, Arindam

Bureaucracy of beauty : design in the age of its global reproducibility / Arindam Dutta - New York : Routledge, 2007. - xii, 364 p.

INTRODUCTION: The Department of Science and Art: The Aesthetic in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility-- CHAPTER 1. Empire " ... in a Fit of Absence of Mind": Toward a Vulgar Theory of Imperialism-- CHAPTER 2. Architecture Upside Down: The Morphotrophy of Value-- CHAPTER 3. "Tardy Imaginations, Torpid Capacities, Tottering Thought": Drawing at the Origin-- CHAPTER 4. Of AbOriginal and CopyRight-- CHAPTER 5. Cyborg/Artisan: On a Certain Asymmetry Deriving from the Binary System. or, Notes on a Moment in the Development of a Taylorist Feudalism-- CHAPTER 6. Congress: Gandhi at the World Exhibitions-- CHAPTER 7. Unmaking Beauty: Aesthetics in the Shadow of History-- POSTSCRIPT: Infinite Justice: An Architectural Coda



ISBN: 9780415979207

Subjects--Topical Terms:
AR
Great Britain
Nationalism--History--India
Architectural design--History--India
Department of Science and Art--History
Department of Science and Art--History--Great Britain

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Colonies --Economic policy
India--Colonial influence
India--Cultural policy --History

Dewey Class. No.: 720.103 / DUT-B