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  2. Folk art - Wikipedia

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    Folk art objects are usually produced in a one-off production process. Only one object is made at a time, either by hand or in a combination of hand and machine methods, and are not mass-produced . As a result of manual production, individual pieces are considered to be unique and usually can be differentiated from other objects of the same type.

  3. Concepts in folk art - Wikipedia

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    These foreign objects were intriguing to the Europeans, however they did not fit in the newly defined genres of "art" and "fine art", which were for the most part confined to painting and sculpture. To get around this, the artifacts of the "other" were labeled as "folk art" or " primitive art ", differentiated from the European elite creations ...

  4. This Artist Turns Everyday Objects Into Sculptural Footwear ...

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    Curious about what led her to start creating with everyday objects, we asked about her beginnings. "Since childhood, I have felt like an artist, and throughout my life, this has taken on different ...

  5. The arts - Wikipedia

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    The term "applied art" is used in distinction to the fine arts, where the latter is defined as arts that aim to produce objects that are beautiful or provide intellectual stimulation but have no primary everyday function. In practice, the two often overlap.

  6. Sociology of art - Wikipedia

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    In her 1970 book Meaning and Expression: Toward a Sociology of Art, Hanna Deinhard gives one approach: "The point of departure of the sociology of art is the question: How is it possible that works of art, which always originate as products of human activity within a particular time and society and for a particular time, society, or function -- even though they are not necessarily produced as ...

  7. Material culture - Wikipedia

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    An object can mediate messages between time or space or both between people who are not together. A work of art, for example, can transfer a message from the creator to the viewer and share an image, a feeling, or an experience. [10] Material can contain memories and mutual experiences across time and influence thoughts and feelings.

  8. Applied arts - Wikipedia

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    The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing. [1] The term is used in distinction to the fine arts, which are those that produce objects with no practical use, whose only purpose is to be beautiful or stimulate the intellect in some way.

  9. Everyday Aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    Everyday Aesthetics is a recent subfield of philosophical aesthetics focusing on everyday events, settings and activities in which the faculty of sensibility is saliently at stake. Alexander Baumgarten established Aesthetics as a discipline and defined it as scientia cognitionis sensitivae , the science of sensory knowledge, in his foundational ...