marchone
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Arts and Crafts are distinct for reasons galore. Art and Design are differentiated for similar myriad reasons. Decorative Arts are yet another category but are still catalogued by museums. Begin with reading Ruskin then go back centuries and forward to now. People often conflate fine crafts with fine art. Crafts are necessary as practical applications of everyday goods; art is not, but is necessary for the soul of humanity.
An arguable parallel may be a look at classical symphonies vs folk music. One is pure sound; the other a lyrical story. The question generates the debate.
Knife making is not art. Knife design can be art. The culinary arts are mostly not. When food rarely if ever achieves that momentary nirvana, it is gone just as fast because it is a comestible and has no permanence.
PS: I am tempted to paraphrase the SCOTUS definition of pornography: You know it when you see it. But many will still argue that high craft is art, because that is what they see.
An arguable parallel may be a look at classical symphonies vs folk music. One is pure sound; the other a lyrical story. The question generates the debate.
Knife making is not art. Knife design can be art. The culinary arts are mostly not. When food rarely if ever achieves that momentary nirvana, it is gone just as fast because it is a comestible and has no permanence.
PS: I am tempted to paraphrase the SCOTUS definition of pornography: You know it when you see it. But many will still argue that high craft is art, because that is what they see.
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