MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?... Like Paul (2012) mentioned that being driven by the market by the 1980s, the object-based art shifted in the exhibition-makers' role from curator-as-mediator to curator-as-author. ... The earliest type of decorative art was ancient pottery, notably the Jomon style Japanese ceramics pioneered from about 14,500 BCE. It was also widely produced from about...

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