Design and art /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index.

Introduction -- Paradigms -- Utopias and collectives -- Coordinators.

Introduction : beyond designart / Alex Coles -- Paradigms. Good design : What is it for? (1957) / George Nelson -- Di(e)ter Rot(h) (1961) / Richard Hamilton -- Recentness of sculpture (1967) / Clement Greenberg -- Is a designer an artist? (1969) / Norman Potter -- Politics of design (1981) / Paul Rand -- Art as design, design as art (1986) / Dan Graham -- It's hard to find a good lamp (1993) / Donald Judd -- About the word design (1993) / Vilém Flusser -- Interview with Fritz Haeg (1999) / Jorge Pardo -- Please, eat the daisies (2001) / Joe Scanlan -- Design and crime (2002) / Hal Foster -- Jorge Pardo's Designs on design (2002) / Miwon Kwon -- But, is it art? (2003) / Kees Dorst -- A conversation with Hella Jongerius that might have taken place (2003) / Louise Schouwenberg -- Art's little brother (2005) / Rick Poynor -- Interview with Lucienne Roberts (2005) / Experimental Jetset -- Utopias and collectives. Plug-in City (1972) / Peter Cook/Archigram -- The dialectic of the avant-garde (1974) / Manfred Tafuri -- Future prospects and utopian ideas : interview with François Burckhardt (1980) / Dieter Rams -- Home is where the art is ; Andrea Zittel responds (1994) / Benjamin Weil and Andrea Zittel -- The master and slave unit, I & II (1994) / Joep van Lieshout -- Interview with Paul Virilio (1995) / Lucy Orta -- Art and reality (1996) / N55 -- Interview with Åsa Nacking (1998) / Superflex -- Mad scientist (2000) / Douglas Coupland -- Interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2002) / Rirkrit Tiravanija -- Sleeping on a Van Gogh : Interview with Anthony Spira (2005) / Tobias Rehberger -- Coordinators. The installation designs of Frederick Kiesler (1998) / Mary Anne Staniszewski -- Nothing to lose : interview with Gretchen Berg (1967) / Andy Warhol -- Ruscha as publisher (or All booked up) : interview (1972) / David Bourdon and Ed Ruscha -- What is design? (1972) / Charles Eames -- Whatever happened to total design? (1998) / Mark Wigley -- What if? (2000) / Maria Lind -- Interview with Catsou Roberts and Lucy Steeds (2000) / Liam Gillick -- Too much information : interview with Linda Van Deursen and Armand Mevis (2005) / Paul Elliman -- Royal College of Art discussion with David Blamey (2006) / M/M (Michael Amzalag, Mathias Augustyniak).

This reader in Whitechapel's Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the Pop and Minimalist eras--as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates--the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields. The texts include writings by Paul Rand, Hal Foster, Miwon Kwon, and others that set the parameters of the debate; utopian visions, including those of architect Peter Cook and writer Douglas Coupland; project descriptions by artists (among them Tobias Rehberger and Jorge Pardo) juxtaposed with theoretical writings; surveys of group practices by such collectives as N55 and Superflex; and views of the artist as mediator--a role assumed in the past to be the province of the designer--as seen in work by Frederick Kiesler, Ed Ruscha, and others. Finally, a book that doesn't privilege either the art world or the design world but puts them in dialogue with each other.