Word: utilitarianism
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Collier also put forward a utilitarian plan for spreading overcrowding evenly throughout the houses. He said his program was designed to minimize the "pain factor" and "equalize" the discomfort. Jeremy Bentham would have been proud...
...this "study" is not merely a layman's guide to technology; it examines the diverse ways modern man relates to his mechanical environment: through embittered helplessness that generates awe and estrangement, through indifference and waste, through blind utilitarian lens and through care and insight. The attitudes are realized in narrative and description as well as in the strands of Pirsig's philosophic discourses...
...chimeric nature of fantasy threatened the conventional, socialized scheme of life, and Victorian fairy stories flourished only briefly. Opposition to the literature came from organs like the utilitarian Westminster Review, which warned...
...flat, colored architecture. "An object," he declared in a lecture in 1924, "becomes a spectacle as soon as It has a spectator. So one can think of that object in a number of ways. So a house wife might think of a table as something more or less utilitarian. A carpenter would notice how It is made and from what quality of wood. A poet-a bad one-will imagine everyone sitting round the hearth, and so forth. But for a painter it will be, quite simply, a collection of flat colored shapes." Such statements have since become the cliches...
Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One piece looks like a horse's head resting on a three dimensional triangle; another resembles a pyramid changing into a flamingo. Though these creations were assembled especially for this presentation--most have been made since September--they nevertheless lack the group coherence and consistency that should characterize a professional show...