Monday 11 April 2011

Evolutionary aesthetics: rethinking the role of function in art and design

In the first half of the twentieth century there was a remarkable convergence of art and design in De Stijl, Constructivism and the Bauhaus. But in the second half of the twentieth century fine art relinquished its liaison with design due to the influence of Dada and Surrealism's postromantic antagonism to practical-functionalism. Dada and Surrealism and postmodern fine art are characterized by a critique of the dominant social discourse of functionalism and the demand for a sublime poetics to be brought into everyday life.

Coulter-Smith, G 2010, Evolutionary aesthetics: rethinking the role of function in art and design, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8, 1, pp. 85-91, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 11 April 2011
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