Dear Terry,
This is not a matter of standards in the Chicago Manual of Style. The Economist Style Guide is a UK standard. I have been an editor, writer, and reviewer for several UK publishers, academic and journalistic, and I have not observed your usage of “Art and Design” elsewhere.
My copy of Fowler is being shipped by sea from Australia, so I won’t claim that your argument is entirely wrong. I do say that I’ve never seen this at Elsevier, Sage, Oxford, Cambridge, Routledge, Macmillan, St Martin’s, St James, nor in the UK journals or newspapers that I read.
The names of specific departments or institutions are proper nouns. They require upper-case initials, as in my sig. The institutional fields of art and design do not.
I speak for what I have seen in professional publishing. I can’t speak to personal preference or colloquial usage.
Ken
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Terry Love wrote:
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Apologies. UK convention (along with using single rather than double quotes) is to capitalise rather more than in the US.
My understanding is the UK also capitalise for emphasis and to distinguish institutional characteristics from subject names. Hence, Art and Design refers to the institution containing the disciplines of art, furniture making, interior design, design etc. Another example is that Design as an institutional identity is different from the subject or field of design. This latter is in when people comment that (say) Design does this or that. This capitalisations supports the implicit sense of the possibility of agency within institutions and echoes the same sense of agency for which the names of individuals are capitalised, and corporations and other agencies are capitalised , as in Department of Design or Imperial College. In that sense, we have Engineering fields include mechanical engineering, software design etc. but design in the field of engineering . . . .
I understand it is different in Chicago Manual of Style.
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