Practice question · True or false
Most people encounter designed form far more often through everyday objects than through fine art.
Hints
- Count the designed objects in the room you are in.
- Chairs, phones, packaging, signage and type are all designed.
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True
Why
True, and it is a reason for art history to attend to design that has nothing to do with settling its rank. If the question is how visual form shapes experience, then the objects people handle daily have a far larger claim on attention than the ones they visit occasionally in a gallery.
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