User:Luisa Moura/thematic/trimester III/Florian Cramer

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educational system netherlands: workshops + classical education

origin Bauhaus? (see diagram) XIX century arts and crafts system?

'academy' and Plato - school of athens: idealized greek culture (check painting)

analysis: 'no wood workshop' in this ideal, like we find in the bauhaus scheme

again bauhaus and the division among disciplines. the issue of (no)identity or signature

'poetry' comes from 'making'?

neo-platonism? 3 centuries after plato. identification with plato (...) allegory of the cave

allegory and media. Baudrillard (check) simulacrum

the power of concept and metaphor. traps of perception, the shadow is the only real thing.

material reality always deceptve, potentially deceptive. need for transcendency, need for the Idea, in the pursuit of truth.

the painters in the cave? plato didn't allow painters in his cave, they produce lies. they extend materiality by means of representing it.

back into neo-platonims. religion?

plato's structure (...) demons, humans, plants, stones, (...) creatures hierarchy. hierarchy reused by cristianity.

Islam. they saved Plato's manuscripts. Islam is more based in Platonism then Christianity.

Marsilio Ficino. founded a new academy?

central perspective, pithagoras and plato, all together. and then? harmony and cosmos. the octaf.

back into perspective. central perspective. alberti. brunelleschi.

taking from plato the ideal. getting the ideal into the rules of representation. actually contradiction.

beauty is always truthful - taken by neo-platonism.

conceptual art? concept = idea

SOL LEWITT?

drawing. instructional, mathematical, exact? pre-determined outcome. instructional scores for painters. 'detachment of the artist from execution'

hard division between thinking and making (again Plato. read)

art, latim. capacity? kevin mitnick. ART OF DECEPTION: CONTROLLLING THE HUMAN ELEMENT OF SECURITY

middle-ages. division between liberal arts and mechanical arts. www.philoreal.de (...) disziplinentheorie (picture)

description of several cathegories (Florian C.), lost information. very different perception of knowledge and work than what we have today.

Liberal arts were the only ones that could be studied in the university. we still have that, a lot in the US and a bit also in the Netherlands. Distinction practice, theory. Painter was as important, academically, as a shoemaker would be. The musician not. the musician had what ws considered to be a higher education. Today inverted. piet zwart institute, pretty much on the mechanical arts cathegory regarding the dutch academic system (hbo)

conceptual art. delegation. crafts and idea.

art academy? france, uk, dutch after the french model. but still, very different model. how?

wdka, origin? XIX century. union of technical drawers from the rotterdam harbor. 'van hier naar hoger' they wanted more recognition. They founded the school. all ducth schools started a crafts school, while for example the rijksacademie came after an institutionalized, international model, of academy. Certain concept. Is this crafts nature of dutch learning an handicapt or an asset?

plato, neo-platonism, descartes, where is History?

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• • DIAGRAM - HISTORICAL (DIALECTIC) MATERIALISM

thesis and antithesis and synthesis, and then synthesis with a new antithesis and so on. until an 'absolute idea'

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Marx, Hegel. from plato.

christianity, life on earth meaningless. the realm of idea as the main room for life.

plato: state, republic. blueprint for fascism? (read)

CALVINISM. THE WISE MEN RUNNING THE STATE

Utopia. Thomas More - a sort of update of plato's republic.

also, the rule of the wise people.

utopia literally means 'no place'

media and place. a no place too.

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back into the diagram and Hegel** Historical thinking. fight of ideas and the achievement of the pure ideological result, political order.

based in an european context only. example of the french revolution. we can achieve a perfect answer. the concept of 'progress'

for Hegel this would also represent the end of History.

It would be the end of art too. Art shall only exist, or be useful, in a state of conflict between material and non-material society.

But, example, the use of art by socialism. "we have the revolution already and we achieved a new order, why would we need art?" propaganda and image. the image of the people. the necessity of a model. ideological permanence.

machiavelli: "its easy to convince people of something, but very hard to keep them in conviction"

Fukuyama, american neo-conservatism

'The End of History and The last (Best?) Man'

DIAGRAM - KARL MARX AND COMMUNISM

feudalism + rise of merchants/traders = capitalism

capitalism + workers/proletariat = leads to socialism/communism

"karl marx, the father of communism replaced the concept of opposing ideas with the concept of opposing economic forces.

Marx felt that communism was the inevitable, natural result of these opposing forces"

The text of Sennet begins in the alienation place between capitalism and human labor (workers/proletariat)

feudalism (...)

THE CRAFTSMAN - linux community.

pride in their work: luxury.

commercial targets and inner satisfaction? quality standard?

creative industries, actually driven by capitalism and alienation.

longing for craft or craft symbolic value.

developing countries: for the own sake of productivity. importance of the worker's happiness and welfare for corporate structures.

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Contextualizing engagement: sartre

engaged art, writing? critical, responsible art?

Jeanne van Heeswijk ("het freehouse project") "de markt van morgen" (and then? check)

revolutionary romanticism?

Situationism?

Collectivity and guilds?

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speaking about autocad and design method. By hand or not? is the medium the content?

simulation? representation? enemy or collaborator? tool against quality or next to quality?

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practical examples.

femke snelting. OSP, Constant.

manufactura independente libre graphics!!! (...) critical engagement with design tools.

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Everyone is an artist. social sculpture. joseph beuys.

anthroposophy (check)

contradiction DIY versus craftmanship. excelency or not as essencial part of craftmanship? Sennett ends up saying it literally.

social involvement, DIY and descaling quality. In how far is engagement in the same bag of high skill.

READING

(check WIKI: Ruskin, Morris, Arts & Crafts - think of examples, contemporary or not)