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<p>[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 1493522, member: 22602"]I'm not exactly sure what you mean in response to my post. By choosing the examples of "a novel, piece of music, sculpture," I stayed firmly within (our contemporary notion of) "fine art" and purposely avoided "design." Design is of course utilitarian but its utility is also what compromises its expressive potential.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, by "utilitarian" are you referring to the service of an object or image to a religious or spiritual end, such as the <i>Venus of Willendorf</i> as a talisman or pre-Renaissance Western painting as a mechanism of the Church? This would be a bit of a stretch of the term.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm happy to have this conversation with you but let's be sure we're starting from the same place so we don't cross-communicate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="oval_man, post: 1493522, member: 22602"]I'm not exactly sure what you mean in response to my post. By choosing the examples of "a novel, piece of music, sculpture," I stayed firmly within (our contemporary notion of) "fine art" and purposely avoided "design." Design is of course utilitarian but its utility is also what compromises its expressive potential. Or, by "utilitarian" are you referring to the service of an object or image to a religious or spiritual end, such as the [I]Venus of Willendorf[/I] as a talisman or pre-Renaissance Western painting as a mechanism of the Church? This would be a bit of a stretch of the term. I'm happy to have this conversation with you but let's be sure we're starting from the same place so we don't cross-communicate.[/QUOTE]
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