Title: Design as a communication device between art and industry
Abstract: The aim of this research was to build in theory a concept of design as a communication device, first between two groups or moral persons : art and industry. The first part seeks for a definition of “art”, “industry”, “design” ; the emergence and evolution of these notions. A second part is aimed at building a concept of design that would distinguish itself from the usual definition of design understood only in its industrial extent, which is a phenomenon limited to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The third part is an attempt to link this phenomenon with that of the emergence of a mediatic worldwide scene and universal exibition in order to produce modernism as a religion for the industrial era. This theoretical work also offers to measure how art is being modified by and through this industrial system, and on the other hand how some artists make the dream of a greater aesthetical attention progress in this system