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- Title
Mechanical Disegno.
- Authors
Ajmar, Marta
- Abstract
The article argues that the debate around Italian Renaissance disegno has tended to overemphasize the rhetoric promoting a separation between design and execution, mind and body, and asserting a hierarchy of the arts constructed on the friction between intellectual and corporeal engagement in the making of artefacts. Building on written sources such as so-called "technical treatises" and on objects taken as evidence of the design process, it is suggested that we should consider instead a more integrated, organic, technologically engaged and "mechanical" notion of disegno, in which design might be seen to grow within a physical environment from the interconnection of human action and materials. Using Renaissance pottery as a case study, and exploring its understanding within different linguistic, literary and material contexts, the article proposes an epistemology allowing for greater fluidity, overlap and communality between supposedly distinct arts.
- Subjects
DESIGN; ANTIQUITIES; RENAISSANCE pottery; RENAISSANCE art; THEORY of knowledge; MEC art (Art movement)
- Publication
RIHA Journal, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2190-3328
- Publication type
Article