FACES OF ART: The Pragmatic Nature of Art: The Art of Craftsmanship

In this paper the configuration of ideas regarding labour, production, and craft are analyzed in accordance with the pragmatic assumption that the natural order contains an integrated and coherent set of elements: subject, mind, matter, knowledge and what is learned. Craft and art are interpreted as a desire of the solidity of working. The subject explored is the social dimension of interrelation of craft and art, in both the local and global aspects of social reality. The objective was to present some of the possibilities of application analysed on a local level of economical practices in organizational culture, and on the global level of social problems from the point of view of excluded social actors.