The Confusion between Art and Design : Brain-tools versus Body-tools (eBook)

Brain-tools versus Body-tools

Tsion Avital (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
571 Seiten
Vernon Art and Science Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-62273-306-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the past century the borders have blurred between art and design. Designers, artists, aestheticians, curators, art and design critics, historians and students all seem confused about these borders. Figurative painting was reduced to graphic design while still being called art. Figurative sculpture was reduced to nonfunctional industrial design while being called sculpture. This fundamental blunder resulted from total misunderstanding of the concept of abstraction by the founders of modern art. Comprehensive analysis shows that so-called abstract art is neither abstract nor art, but a very simple, even trivial, kind of design. In this book the prehistoric, philosophical, logical, historic and religious sources of the confusion between art and design are analyzed.A new and coherent conceptual framework is proposed, to distinguish between art and design. Nearly one hundred distinctions, contradistinctions and comparisons between art and design are presented, showing clearly that they are totally independent domains. Philosophy of art books are written by philosophers for philosophers, not for artists and designers; therefore they are irrelevant for the latter, especially for students who normally lack the necessary conceptual training. This book is not only for theoreticians but for art and design practitioners at all levels. This is a new kind of book: an illustrated philosophical book for the art and design world, which can make philosophical knowledge accessible and useful for solving real problems for designers and artists who are mostly visual rather than conceptual thinkers. The book contains over two hundred images; thus art and design people can easily follow the arguments and reasoning presented in this book in their own language; images. Lack of distinction between art and design harms both. Design is contaminated by the ills of modern art, while modern art cannot recover from its current stagnation whilst under the illusion that it is actually art rather than design.

Inhalt

ContentsPreface                                         1  Invitation: Can a chair be a sculpture of a chair?             1.1 On the need to do away with fake sacred cows.
1.2 Misunderstanding of abstraction by modernism is the main source of the
      confusion between art and design. 
1.3 Duchamp's syndrome: Camouflage, disguise and fraudulence in nature
      and culture.
1.4 Which art versus which design
1.5 Can a chair be a sculpture of a chair? 
2  The human tool kit: Body-tools, Brain-tools, Mind-tools        2.1 Body-tools: First order reality- Phenomenal reality.
2.2 Brain-tools: Second order reality- Symbol systems.
2.3 Mind-tools: Third level reality- Structuralism or mind in tools.
3  The roots of confusion between art and design           
          
3.1 The confusion between object and photo.
3.2 In prehistory there was no distinction between art and design. 
3.3  The confusion between art and design produced by the Greek concept
       "technē" and Plato's metaphysics.
3.4 Scientists in no-man's land: Science inadvertently promotes the confusion
       between art and design.
3.5 The confusion between art and design in mathematical art.
3.6  A whirlpool of confusions between art and design: Self-deceit and
       eyewash by academia, museums and some parasites on art.
3.7  Tools as art?
3.8 "Painting": A linguistic trap.4  Art versus design: A horde of contradistinctions
             
4.1 There is natural design but no natural art.
4.2 Art versus design: some basic distinctions.
4.3 Art versus design: symbol versus object
4.4 Art versus design: systemic versus discrete entities.
4.5 Art versus design: paradigms versus styles
4.6 Art versus virtual design.
4.7 Complementary aspects between art and design    
5 If it is holy it is not art. If it is art it is not holy:                       
   The confusion between icon, art, and design in religious art.5.1  Art and iconoclasm are incompatible.
5.2  Art, design and iconoclasm in Judaism.  
5.3  Art, design and iconoclasm in Christianity
5.4  Art, design and iconoclasm in IslamList of illustrations    
                                   
Bibliography                                                      Index                        

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Abstraction • Aesthetics • Animal Art • Anish Kapoor • Architecture • Armand • asymmetry • body tools • brain tools • Camouflage • Caro • Christian art • Class • classification • closed endedness • code and fashion • complementarity between art and design • connectivity • connectors • containers • contemporary art criticism • Cultural Anthropology • Determinism • disconnectivity • disguise • dissectors • Duchamp • Embedding • exclusion relations • extension of hand • extension of inner space • extension of skin • falseness of modern art • Fashion • fraudulence • Graphic Design • Grouping • hand tools • Heraclitus • Hierarchy • Holbein • Holon • holonomic • Iconoclasm • image as substitute for object • inclusion relations • incompleteness • indeterminism • Industrial Design • Inner Space • Islamic art • Jewish art • Jewish design • Jizo statues • Kandinsky • Kantian philosophy • Leonardo da Vinci • Levels of reality • Magritte • Malevich • Mathematical art • Merle • Metaphor • Michelangelo • mind tools • modernism • Mondrian • Monet • Munch • mutual exclusiveness • natural design • Network Structure • object versus photo • object versus symbol • Oldenburg • open endedness • paradigm • Parmenides • Phenomenal reality • Philippe Starck • Plato's Metaphysics • Pollock • prehistoric art • prehistoric design • prehistoric figurines • prehistoric tools • Prehistory • Processors • randomness • recurrence • Recursion • Reference • Rembrandt • Representation • Roberto Sambonet • Rodin • Self-Embedding • Self-reference • serial • serial order • sign versus symbol • Singularity • Soulages • Stella • Structuralism • Style • symbol-systems • symmetry • Systemic • systemic versus discrete • tèchne • terra-cotta army at Xian • The fallacy of affirming the consequence • tiling • Tintoretto • tools as art • van Baburen • van Meergeren • Vermeer • Virtual Design • Visual communication
• ISBN-10: 1-62273-306-1 / 1622733061
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62273-306-4 / 9781622733064