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Style and Creativity in Design

Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics ((SAPERE,volume 17))

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“Art” is a field that is highly abstract, conceptual, metaphysical, and difficult to measure. It is a generational result influenced by psychological and cultural phenomena, and usually is probed by philosophers through aesthetics. Aesthetics, on the other hand, is a way of studying the arts and is a branch of philosophy—a philosophy of beauty—that provides a theory of the beautiful and of the fine arts. So, the study of art usually comes along with the study of aesthetics. However, as the study of art became more complex and because of the profound nature of art, scholars and philosophers developed a notion of “style” and used it to help analyze beauty and explore methods of creation, and to distinguish differences between individual artists, groups, and schools.

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    Dada: The word “dada” has a legend. In 1916, a group of artists wanted a name for their new movement. By stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, they picked the name from where the knife point landed. In French, dada is a child’s word for “hobby-horse”; c ’ est mon dada means it ’ s my hobby .

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    Art movements that are treaded as tendencies or styles in art from the nineteenth century to twenty-first century have been listed and linked to the group of artists online, URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_movement

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    See Rhetoric, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric#History

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    In the Middle Ages, Europe was divided into many kingdoms, ruled by kings. In creating their empire, kings depended on the assistance of loyal noblemen called vassals. A nobleman became a vassal when he pledged his loyalty and promised his service to the king. The king then became a lord to his vassal. Most vassals held important positions in the king’s army and served as knights. Many vassals had their own knights, who also pledged services to the king. In return, the kings rewarded their vassals by granting them estates called fiefs, which included the manors on the land, the buildings, the villages of each manor, and the peasants who farmed the manors.

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Chan, CS. (2015). Development of Studies in Style. In: Style and Creativity in Design. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14017-9_3

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