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Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Curtis Carter
Industrial design and the visual arts share a common aesthetic basis as demonstrated by their common use of aesthetic principles and by designers who are also visual artists. The author examines the rationale for exhibiting industrial products in art museums and the similarities and differences between industrial design and the fine arts. He argues that industrial design shares important theoretical concepts (expression, representation and style) with the visual fine arts.
Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Industrial Design: On Its Characteristics And Relationships To The Visual Fine Arts, Curtis Carter
Curtis Carter
Industrial design and the visual arts share a common aesthetic basis as demonstrated by their common use of aesthetic principles and by designers who are also visual artists. The author examines the rationale for exhibiting industrial products in art museums and the similarities and differences between industrial design and the fine arts. He argues that industrial design shares important theoretical concepts (expression, representation and style) with the visual fine arts.
Consumer Commodities In The Museum: Design As Art, Curtis Carter
Consumer Commodities In The Museum: Design As Art, Curtis Carter
Curtis Carter
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Aesthetics Into The Twenty-First Century, Curtis Carter
Aesthetics Into The Twenty-First Century, Curtis Carter
Curtis Carter
The new concerns facing aestheticians in the twenty-first century require serious attention if the discipline is to maintain continued viability as an intellectual discipline. Just as art changes as cultures develop, so must aesthetics. In support of this view is a personal account of evolving engagement with aesthetics and the factors that led to embracing change and a plurality of practices as essential to the health of aesthetic today. A brief examination of the state of aesthetics as it has evolved in the American Society for Aesthetics since its inception in the 1940s will follow. These two lines of development, …