Art History I / Design and the Arts of the Object
Practice question · True or false

Most people encounter designed form far more often through everyday objects than through fine art.

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  1. Count the designed objects in the room you are in.
  2. 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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