Gert Selle Design Denken
Reflexionen zur Dingwelt. Vorträge und Aufsätze 1969–2019
- Presents 38 key talks and essays by Gert Selle, collected in one volume
- Over 50 years of design history, as seen through the eyes of one of Germany’s most influential design theoretician and art educator
- A critical look at the over-aestheticisation of the product world—a topic that remains relevant to this day
Gert Selle (1933–2025) was an esteemed German design theoretician and art educator. Even early in his career, he took as his subject matter the invisible social interdependencies of design and with his Geschichte des Design in Deutschland (History of Design in Germany) presented what continues to be an authoritative reference work to this day.
The publication Gert Selle Design Denken brings together 38 talks and essays covering more than a half century. Selle’s texts are not an inquiry into what is good design, nor do they provide new aesthetic certitudes. Instead, they explore design in places where it has become a given: in the objects that surround us, in the ideas that we associate with them, and in the ways of life they engender and inform. Selle uses sharp observation, historical recollection, and critical thinking to counter the hyper-aestheticisation of our world of products.
Text in German.
- Publisher
- Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- ISBN
- 9783897907805
- Publish date
- 23rd Nov 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- World excluding Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Southern Europe, Australasia, USA, Canada.
- Size
- 290 mm x 216 mm
- Pages
- 400 Pages
- Illustrations
- 41 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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