ARTH 2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pediment, Juan De Villanueva, Barbarian Rugby Club
12 Apr 2017
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Alexander baumgarten 1714-62 taste or sense of beauty based on feelings of pleasure or displeasure science of aesthetics principles of beauty from individual taste. Critique of judgment 1790 aesthetic judgments (judgments of taste) bring a sensible particular under some universal. Taste discerns beauty: unities amidst variety, order and harmony. Jeremy bentham, panopticon, elevation, section and plan drawn by willey reveley, 1791. Prisoners do not know if they are being watched. Act as if they are being watched because they are paranoid. Clear and rational design as a form of control. Key to enlightenment: pure reason as guide anybody not willing to conform becomes a threat. Therefore, mechanisms must be found to apply forced compliance this becomes a true problem in the french revolution. The panopticon is not the dream building but the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form michel foucault. Neoclassical forms become popular all over europe; even places which resisted the.
