The two essays Towards a Standard of Beauty and Arts vs. Craft present a set of ideas that revolve around finding a place or distinction within the ceramic realm. The authors each discuss the manner in which crafts such as pottery have developed and evolved parallel to industry. However in today's highly industrial and technological societies, where has craft evolved to? Has industry simply absorbed our needs for the qualities of handcrafted materials and objects?
I would like to think that industry has its limits to the ways in which it can satisfy our needs as a culture, but also as human beings. I enjoyed the parallels that the articles sort of touched on by acknowledging that industry, technology, etc. evolve with and borrow from the arts and craft, but that is simply because both factions (people and machine) have our own unique short comings and we tend to rely on one another to fulfill these short comings. And while technology certainly has come shockingly far in making people believe it is all they need to be content I think that specific generations like ours who grew up in essentially 2 different technological and economic worlds, are tending to be hesitant of all this "progressiveness" and are more inclined to revert back to a sense of traditionalism.
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