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The Nature and Art of Workmanship

David Pye author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:21st Sep '78

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This 1968 book looks at the aesthetic quality of our environment and shows shows how and why we are conscious of finish and workmanship.

This is a digital reprint of David Pye's original 1968 edition. Within it he argues that the aesthetic quality of our environment depends as much on its workmanship as on its design, and that workmanship has been largely ignored. Mr Pye shows how and why we are conscious of finish and workmanship, goes on to ask why so much of our environment is impoverished and asks what can be done about it.This is a digital reprint of David Pye's original 1968 edition. Within it he argues that the aesthetic quality of our environment depends as much on its workmanship as on its design, and that workmanship has been largely ignored. He proceeds to develop a new theory of the aesthetics of workmanship which can be applied to architecture, to the products of industry and to craft work. Mr Pye shows how and why we are conscious of finish and workmanship, goes on to ask why so much of our environment is impoverished and asks what can be done about it.

ISBN: 9780521293563

Dimensions: 244mm x 170mm x 8mm

Weight: 240g

144 pages