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laodan discovered 21 months ago- Is It Art? in The NYT Style Magazine by ALICE RAWSTHORN Whatu2019s the difference between design and art? The question has cropped up again and again since a Marc Newson chaise longue sold for just under $1 million at Sothebyu2019s this past summer. ... In ye olden days the distinction between art and design boiled down to the beaux-arts prejudice: art = good, design = bad. Art, or so the argument went, was superior to design, because artists were free to express whatever they wished u2014 which, back then, was likely to be beauty u2014 in work they made themselves. Designers, on the other hand, faced numerous creative constraints, from meeting their clientsu2019 needs and ensuring that whatever they designed would fulfill its intended function to delegating production to someone else. ... In the last century, those distinctions eroded. Artists became less inclined to express ideals of beauty, in favor of using art to explore political and emotional concerns. The conception and process of producing art became as important as the work itself, which was increasingly made by someone else, not the artist. The technology of design, meanwhile, became so sophisticated that designers could assume the artistu2019s role of creating beauty. Can you think of a contemporary painting or sculpture that is lovelier in the old-fashioned aesthetic sense than an iMac? URL: Is It Art? URL: Design Fall 2006
Alert confusion! It seems as if for ALICE RAWSTHORN art was only a question of form: creating beauty... Jeez what a poor understanding of something that played so big a role in all human societies since their inceptions. No word indeed of this societal functionality of art in this article. Only superficial talk about what had better been called decoration...
- Is It Art? in The NYT Style Magazine by ALICE RAWSTHORN Whatu2019s the difference between design and art? The question has cropped up again and again since a Marc Newson chaise longue sold for just under $1 million at Sothebyu2019s this past summer. ... In ye olden days the distinction between art and design boiled down to the beaux-arts prejudice: art = good, design = bad. Art, or so the argument went, was superior to design, because artists were free to express whatever they wished u2014 which, back then, was likely to be beauty u2014 in work they made themselves. Designers, on the other hand, faced numerous creative constraints, from meeting their clientsu2019 needs and ensuring that whatever they designed would fulfill its intended function to delegating production to someone else. ... In the last century, those distinctions eroded. Artists became less inclined to express ideals of beauty, in favor of using art to explore political and emotional concerns. The conception and process of producing art became as important as the work itself, which was increasingly made by someone else, not the artist. The technology of design, meanwhile, became so sophisticated that designers could assume the artistu2019s role of creating beauty. Can you think of a contemporary painting or sculpture that is lovelier in the old-fashioned aesthetic sense than an iMac? URL: Is It Art? URL: Design Fall 2006
