{"product_id":"worlds-of-appearance","title":"Worlds of Appearance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn accessible primer on aesthetics in art and everyday life, written by artist and scholar Walead Beshty. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this general guide to the foundations of aesthetics, Walead Beshty introduces the complexities of aesthetics through succinct language and real-world examples, presenting an introductory theory of how the world becomes known to us through our senses and how that knowledge in turn builds our experience of everything around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering aesthetics on both a practical and a theoretical level, \u003ci\u003eWorlds of Appearance\u003c\/i\u003e asserts that art and aesthetics are inherently political, composing a fundamental form of communication and a means by which we can imagine the very nature of what can be experienced, sensed, and expressed. Aesthetics, argues Beshty, is a corporeal and material area of study, one that reveals how we perceive the world and how we develop technologies in response. With this book, he aims to fill a gap in existing writing about aesthetics, offering a clear explanation of how it acts as a dynamic force in our daily lives, how it functions on a concrete level, and how we can understand its possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with how we transform a flood of sensations into a coherent perception of the world, the book considers the basics of aesthetic production and reception, then moves on to look at specific examples of aesthetics in practice, with a focus on art, architecture, and performance. It concludes by laying out how aesthetic literacy is key to understanding the production of wide-ranging aspects of our lives, including digitization, mass media, systems of communications, and power relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57298454970712,"sku":"9780226845340","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/worlds-of-appearance","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}