Fact And Value

From the influence of industrialization, the values and the constitution of value of design had greatly changed in the late of 19th century and the initial of 20th century. Compared with the age of handicraft, the modern design was more confined. The Artistic Design and Fine Art both had the subject of value of itself. So, with the progress of which the artistic expressivity of ornament was weakened, the abstract art had replaced some function of ornament. Adolf Loos's criticism of ornament continued the conventional ornamental criticism, at the same time, he acutely found the transform of value under the change of mode of production.But the design value analyse of Loos broke up the relationship not only between the design and fine art, but also the fact and value. With the overemphasis to economical value of design, Loos's value singularism was embodied which based in the binary oppositions. Reversing a correct verdict for ornament is not the aim of my article, because the merits and demerits of ornament will be commented from head to feet with the change of age. In the visual angle of value pluralism, my article try to observe the Loos's criticism of ornament once again. With confirming Loos's acute cognition of modern design, I will point out the limitations of this criticism, and the limitations of value singularism. There are some view of unorderable in value and two kinds of liberty which came from value pluralism will establish the base of a overall and objective value system.