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• 30 oct 2016

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  Call for papers - Thought

  Ergon and Parergon

  Decorative arts, applied arts, industrial arts : fine arts and the others

  Ornamant largely disapeared from the contemporary world, and even more from the Panthéon of its values. Adolf Loos's well known title maintains that it is a crime (Ornament and crime, 1908), and Le Corbusier judges that decorative objects are bulky, ridiculous and dishonest "moth-eaten old rags" (L'Art décoratif aujourd'hui, 1925). From several aspects, ornament is at variance with the modern idea of art : ornament is additional while art work claims to be necessary ; ornament has a fonction while art work refuse to be ancilary ; ornament is designed to serve, while art work should not ; ornament aim for beauty, while beauty is no longer the highest value of art.

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