Arranging Things: A Rhetoric on Object Placement

By Leonard Koren
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Leonard Koren’s Arranging Things explores object placement as aesthetic expression, blending design philosophy with Nathalie Du Pasquier’s vibrant art.

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Overview

Arranging Things: A Rhetoric on Object Placement

'Most arrangements are little noticed, yet some stop you in your tracks'. Originally published in 2003, Leonard Koren’s highly sought-after Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement utilises the language of rhetoric to portray visual arrangement as a ‘communicational act: its own language-like form of aesthetic expression’.

Koren’s insightful meditation is further distilled into eight rhetorical principles presented alognside 23 idiosyncratic paintings by artist Nathalie Du Pasquier which illustrate the volume. With a welcoming tone, Arranging Things offers an accessible strategy which can be used to analyse any arrangement.

Back by popular demand, this new edition of Arranging Things presents Du Pasquier’s artistic works in a generous format in celebration of Koren’s visual journey through the heart of design philosophy. Arranging Things is not merely a popular book on design; it is a landmark text, a practical manifesto of aesthetic beauty, one for brightening and broadening the way we understand and arrange our worlds.

Pages

80

Language
  • ENG- English
Publisher

Apartamento

Format
  • Softcover
Size

9.5 x 11.2 inches

ISBN

978-8409581528

About the author

Leonard Koren

Leonard Koren was trained as an architect but never built anything—except an eccentric Japanese tea house—because he found large, permanent objects too philosophically vexing to design. Instead, he created WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the premier avant-garde magazines of the 1970s. Since then, Koren has produced books about design (Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement) and aesthetics (Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean: Ten Definitions).

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