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According to Joseph Alsop, art is defined, and I believe rightly so, by eight epiphenomenons.4 Incidentally, design share with art all of those eight epiphenomenons: there are collectors of design, a history of design, a market for design, design museums, design forgery, re-evaluation of taste, antiquities (for instance bakelite telephones or Umbrian majolica), and super-prices. Still, it is evident that design is subsumed under an other discourse than art.

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4) Joseph Alsop, The Rare Art Traditions. The History of Art Collecting and its Linked Phenomena wherever these have appeared, New York: Princeton UP (Bollingen Series. XXXV. 27), 1981.

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