Design and Truth

by Robert Grudin

Book Overview

A profound meditation on how design reflects the uses and abuses of power from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Time and the Art of Living

"If good design tells the truth," writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, "poor design tells a lie, a lie usually related . . . to the getting or abusing of power."

From the ornate cathedrals of Renaissance Europe to the much-maligned Ford Edsel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300171315
• ISBN13: 9780300171310
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.0"