穆特修斯:德国现代设计美学的杰出代表

Muthesius: An Outstanding Representative of Modern German Design Aesthetics

穆特修斯对现代设计美学的形成有着重要贡献。他认为机器产品具有审美潜能,因为它是有精神内涵的。机器产品的审美显现,直接体现在形式上,机器产品之美不在功能,而在形式。精神与形式的结合,在一定程度上构成他设计美学的核心概念:类型。类型是设计之美的理想形态,它强调时代的共性与理性内涵,是设计之美区别于艺术美的标志。设计水平的提高与品位有关,品位是一个集伦理与审美于一体的概念,有其复杂的内在逻辑,也是德国现代设计运动与更深层的文化改革之间的联系纽带。

Muthesius has made important contributions to the formation of modern design aesthetics.He believes that machine products have aesthetic potential because they have spiritual connotations.The aesthetic appearance of machine product is directly reflected in form,the beauty of machine products is not the function,but the form.To a certain extent,the combination of spirit and form constitutes the core concept of his design aesthetics:type.Type is the ideal form of the beauty of design,which emphasizes the generality and rational connotation of the times and marks the difference between the beauty of design and the beauty of art.The improvement of design quality is related to taste.Taste is a concept of ethics and aesthetics.It has its complicated internal logic,and it is also the link between modern German design movement and deeper cultural reform.