AUGUST 8

Lecture: Introduction: Reform movement in the 19th century. The Aesthetic Movement. Japanese Design influence. Dresser. Thonet. Ruskin, Morris and the Rise of the Arts & Crafts Movement.
Film: “EXPO:  Magic of the White City” – The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 – Narrated by Gene Wilder – one hour
Reader: "The Three Paths: Theories Underlying the Arts and Crafts Movement," "The Earthly Paradox of William Morris," and "Style for a New Century."

Lecture: Animation begins. Printing and illustration, packaging. More aesthetics at the beginning of the 20th century. Folk Art Revivals Regionalism and Nationalism.
Film: Early animation from France and America

Reader: "N.C. Wyeth."

 

AUGUST 10

Lecture: Colonial and Spanish Colonial Revivals - Arts & Crafts in America. Later Arts & Crafts in Europe. The Vienna Secession.
Film: "Gaudi."  “Art Nouveau”
Reader: "The Work Programme of the Weiner Werkstatte".

 

AUGUST 15

Lecture: The Modern Style: Cubism,. The Influence of African art and Abstraction. Modern Movement: Architecture and Design in Utopian Fiction and Fantasy.
Reader: "A Vast Hall of Light."

 

AUGUST 17-22

Lecture: The Modern Style: Cubism,. The Influence of African art and Abstraction. Modern Movement: Architecture and Design in Utopian Fiction and Fantasy.
Reader: "A Vast Hall of Light."

 

Lecture: Dada. German Expressionism and Russian Constructivist Design. The Bauhaus: theory and educational program.
Film: "The Bauhaus."
Reader: "Programme of the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar."

 

AUGUST 24 - MIDTERM REVIEW

 

AUGUST 29 - MIDTERM EXAMINATION - slide identification and short answer questions – some take home essays may be given.

 

AUGUST 31 - PROSPECTUS DUE
Lecture: The Modern Movement Popularized: Art Deco and streamlining. The Modern Movement Popularized: World's Fair. Science fiction imagery: mechanical servants. The Life of Ease envisioned.
Film: "Streamlining Trains" and "Leave it to Rollo" - 1939 World's Fair/Norman Bel Geddes.

 

SEPTEMBER 5

Reader: "The Influence of Modern Art."
Film: "Raymond Lowey: Father of Industrial Design."

 

Reader: "The Streamlined Moderne."
Film: "Frank Lloyd Wright."

 

SEPTEMBER 7 - ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

Reader: "The Luckiest Generation from Populuxe." "Oranamentalism: An Introduction and Deconstruction: The Pleasures of Absence."
Lecture: The fifties: new materials and mass-production. The rise of the suburbs. Space Age design. Nostalgia as seen in the ranch house and Western style. The International Style in architecture and graphic design.
Abstract Expressionism and its influence: process and accident (Zen Buddhism and its influence) Rebellion in the 50's: Beatniks and comic books.

 

SEPTEMBER 12 - PAPER DUE TODAY!

Lecture: The 60's and 70's - rejecting consumerism: hippies and youth culture - recycling- return to handcraft - mobility - ecological concerns.
Postmodernism - return of Historicism and Ornamentalism.

Lecture: The 80's and 90's recent tendencies - deconstruction - current designers and designers.

 

SEPTEMBER 14 - FINAL EXAMINATION