The genius in the design

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

This biography offers students and general readers an insightful look into Jerry Garcia's creative genius as a founding member of The Grateful Dead and the various influences on hi...

Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists drawing on a wide range of 20th century and contemporary examples from i...

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music. The success of his opera Der Freischütz almost single handedly brough...

This chapter explores how Matthew Arnold’s major essays of the 1860s and 1870s took up the racialized readings of religion that Müller had opposed and used them to construct a libe...

Albert Einstein remains one of most famous scientists in world history. His image is instantly recognizable by even the most scientifically uninformed person—for many people, Einst...

The French Romantic artist often has to define his place and his function in society in ways external to the essence of his work or to the aesthetic domain: he has to assume a mask...

How might we develop products made with and by disabled users rather than for them?  Could we change living and working spaces to make them accessible rather than designing product...