AD 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arts And Crafts Movement, Human-Centered Design, Sam Maloof
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Ancient greeks & romans: ars: put together, techne: strength, ars/techne: both refer to human acivity in general that was disinct from nature. Works made by arisans/cratsmen; understood & experienced as samples of human ability/skill. Previous, greco-roman worldview : man & nature as essenially opposed, but working together . Replaced by : one chrisian god, more powerful than either humankind or nature, overseeing both . Art also began to refer to certain skills and certain expressive" arts. Humans worthy in their own right, rather than how necessarily relate to the church; secularism. Gradual shit from depicion of sweeping religious themes to images of rich peoples" day-to-day lives. Secular emphasis on the individual brings focus onto the individual talents of speciic arists not just a guild of arisans. William morris pimpernel patern wallpaper (1876), ile design. Decomposed igneous rock, clay > kiln > glaze blaze (protecion/decoraion)