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?... Nowadays, several modern forms of decorative work involving interior/fashion design, graphics, or computers, are known as "design" disciplines rather than decorative art. ... Fine art is rooted in drawing and design-based works. ... Other non-design-based activities regarded as fine arts. ... It wasn't until the Renaissance that the professio...

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Many forms of expression combine aesthetic concerns with utilitarian purposes; pottery, architecture, metalworking, and advertising design may be cited as examples. ... His sweet grass baskets are not only usable but they are beautiful with each having a unique design of its own. ... Another traditional system of classification, applied to the fine arts, establishes such categories as literature, the visual arts, the graphic arts, the plastic arts, the decorative arts, the performing arts, music, and architecture. ...

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