艺术史家贡布里希爵士说过,“现实中根本没有艺术这种东西,只有艺术家而已”。他认为艺术史是在艺术家不断解决由社会和艺术传统自身所提出的问题的过程中形成的,从而以艺术史创造主体的角度来肯定艺术史正是艺术家的历史。新近的艺术理论研究在关注视角方面已经发生了数次转向,由艺术家个体研究转向作品本身,由作品分析转向对艺术消费的研究。而在设计史研究领域,尽管我们非常清楚设计行为属于一种社会活动而非私人创作,但仍有相当比例设计史的书写试图从部分天才设计师的职业生涯、设计理 The art historian, Sir Gombrich, said: “There is no such thing as art in reality, only the artist.” He believes that the history of art is formed during the artist’s constant solution to the problems posed by the social and artistic traditions themselves, thus affirming that art history is the artist’s history from the perspective of the creation of art history. Recent art theory studies have turned several times in the field of attention, from individual artist studies to works themselves, from the analysis of works to the study of art consumption. In the field of design history research, although we know very well that design is a kind of social activity rather than private creation, there is still a considerable proportion of the history of design writing from some of the genius designers’ careers,