The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility

The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory. Arindam Dutta's argument joins literary criticism, postcolonial thought, design history and the past and present of empire.

The book opens with Britain's Department of Science and Arts in the nineteenth century, and follows the story of design through to the present. Its subject is the way design has been organised and reproduced on a global scale.

Readers interested in design history, architecture, postcolonial studies and the cultural history of empire will find its range of connections useful.

Publisher: Routledge. ISBN-13: 9780415979191.