Following on from the triangulation carried out on my first set of sources, I have begun to analyse two more documents in line with my theme and sub-themes.
Munari's essay seemed to revolve around functionality in taste and the place of design in aura. While Sontag's feminist article takes an alternative approach, discussing taste in light of the female form and the female role in ever present patriarchal conventions.
While Sontag's essay does not cover the subject of art specifically, her viewpoints on taste as a subservient exercise seem to echo some of the problems raised by Grayson Perry in his discussions on the power of curators and critics in defining what the world sees as 'taste'.
A conflict raised by these documents is the applied artist as being the provider of function to the high arts, while remaining the lesser genius since the commercial artist can never be the pure genius. In light of my other sources, it will be interesting to address the issue of the artist's choice to conform, either to fake hierarchies of power or low brow, honest, commercial art.
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