The first sentence of your passage: "There is no art but one delivered to mankind that hath not the works of nature for his principal object."

你们篇子上的第一句话：，“只有一种艺术,当它传播到人间时,不带有自然的痕迹“

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The case went all the way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York -- and Kieselstein-Cord won, becoming the first designer to win the right to copyright a functional object as art.

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Usually viewers are the ones that look at art, but what we are trying to do is reinvert the viewing perspective so it's the art object that is doing the viewing.

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On a slightly smaller scale, there's the huge Siemens breaker I saw at the Bonneville Power Administration. (If you're thinking of buying one as an art object, ask your dealer for a Siemens 72.5 kV SF6 sulfur hexafluoride power circuit breaker).

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