Art History I / Design and the Arts of the Object
Practice question · Put in order

Arrange these developments in the status of the applied arts in order.

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  1. The exclusion comes first and the profession last.
  2. Ruskin precedes Morris, who was developing his position.
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  1. The fine arts are assembled as a category excluding useful objects
  2. Ruskin attacks the division of design from execution
  3. Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement build an alternative
  4. The Bauhaus proposes designing for the machine
  5. Industrial design emerges as a distinct profession
Why

The sequence is a two-century argument with the same question at its centre: whether an object made to be used can be judged by the same standards as one made to be contemplated. Each stage answers it differently, and the profession at the end exists because the answer eventually became yes.

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