Manufactured Pleasures Psychological Responses to Design - Studies in Design & Material Culture

Ray (Lecturer in the Psychology of Education Crozier University of

Paperback (09 Jun 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Manufactured Pleasures" examines the area of our psychological resonses to everyday objects and the environment in which we live, covering issues of good and bad taste, sexuality and gender.;This book, which covers a wide range of examples, including Madonna and Simone de Beauvoir, cities and architecture, the home, landscape, pornography and fetishism, cars and fashion, aims to provide an accessible introduction to the psychology of responses to design.

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Manchester University Press

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Book information

ISBN:	9780719038426
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Pub date:	09 Jun 1994
DEWEY:	745.4019
Language:	English
Number of pages:	204
Weight:	358g
Height:	150mm
Width:	210mm
Spine width:	14mm