From ornament to total design: a historic overview from Hal Foster
This paper takes up Hal Foster’s controversial “Design and Crime” to outline a brief historical overview of the relationship between Art Nouveau ornamentation and what the author calls “total design”. To this end, I revisit the nineteenth-century debate about ornament and explain how the cult of per...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC) |
| Repositorio: | Palíndromo (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai::article/16824 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/article/view/16824 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Hal Foster Ornamento Design Total Art Nouveau Ornament Total Design Diseño Total |
| Sumario: | This paper takes up Hal Foster’s controversial “Design and Crime” to outline a brief historical overview of the relationship between Art Nouveau ornamentation and what the author calls “total design”. To this end, I revisit the nineteenth-century debate about ornament and explain how the cult of personality emerges with the ornamentation of public life. From this, I argue that the diffusion of design in contemporary life is linked to the behavior of the “designer of yourself”. Finally, I point out that Foster’s provocation remains current, indicating that, contrary to the narratives that expose design as the overcoming of ornament, design continues to operate largely as an ornamental rationality. |
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