Distinction art and craft

The craft object’s functional aesthetic quality will rest on the fitness of its form for its utilitarian purpose, and the painting’s functional aesthetic qualities rest on the fitness of its form to its content, to what it is about.

• True

• False

Sally Markowitz argues that a distinction between art and craft because it reflects culture’s elitist values: what white European men make is dignified by the label “art,” while what everyone else makes counts only as craft.

• True

• False

The main difference between art and craft is through physical and ______________activities.

• Reflective

• Meditative

• Contemplative

• Pensive

Decartes’s view posits two distinct substances, matter and spirit.  This dualism has shaped the way we regard morality, politics, gender, and view of art. 

• Material and Spirit

• Stuff and Intelligence

• Body and Soul

• Material and Immaterial

What is normative dualism?

• We don't distinguish the mental from the physical

• We distinguish the mental from the physical and they are different and equal

• We not only distinguish the mental from the physical, but we value things mental over things physical