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?... Display Models/Theme 3. ... Besides, there can be an overlap with the exhibition manager's role. ... Also, decorative art is overlapped with the larger category of applied art. With a rather huge range of artistic disciplines concerned with the design and ornamentation of items, decorative arts are usually functional, that do not necessarily have any i...

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The artists are reacting to traditional art movements with the aim to create something to engage with the audience. ... This image is reminiscent of a delivery room; the creature appears to have just been born, the doctor is showing it to those beyond the glass, and this also has connotations of a Frankenstein styled development of technology. ... Here Piccinini has presented her view of what these 'Perfect' babies would look like, the exaggeration of the form expressing her views. ... In our modern society, it is not the purpose of art to merely cause the audience discomfort in its...

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Etant Donnes by Marcel Duchamp is an interactive sculpture where viewers firstly face a rustic and antiquated looking wooden door (figure 1) with a peephole (figure 2) in an empty room within the Philadelphia museum. ... The view is seen through a deliberately made hole which gives a feeling of distance and looking into another world (figure 4). ... Le Violin d'Ingres (figure 5) by Man Ray is a monochromatic photograph of a woman with a violin shaped body with f holes painted on her back to resemble a string instrument. ... The artwork incorporates the "male gaze theory", which...

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