Sunday, 13 December 2009

Session 7 Notes on Lecture

Modernism

They saw themselves as the guardians of culture
World war 2 had a profound

1950
A watershed period for British culture
Americanism
Rebel without a cause 1955

Futurism
Era of the lifestyle

Historical Developments
1915- Design a Industries Association established
Council of industrial design larches 1944
Art council of England established 1945
State sponsored art and design
Bassett- Gray group of artist & design became industrial design partnership in 1935

The artist and crafts movement espoused values of sound workmanship.

Utility Furniture company set up by board of trade in 1942 committee approved furniture.

Customizing product as lifestyle choice
Jeremy Dellar and Alan Kane image from British.

Historical Developments
American design 'Good design is an upwards sales curve'
Raymond Loewy
British design

In 1961 Reyner Banham called the design index, housed at a newly.

Key Postmodernist Theorists
"Consumer objects constitute a system of signs that differentiate the population.

The History of art, media & design
Foucault's work proposes that there are under layers of suppressed knowledge in and throughout history and therefore upset the traditional understanding of history.

Postmodernism
Difficult to locate historically, because it's not clear.

Conceptual art
Hostility to it immense- orthodox art history has assimilated

Process of making given importance
A reaction against control?

Post- Modernity
Sometime considered to date from 1945
This date would tie in post- Modernity with the wave of art

Nike ID Customizing you own boots design.

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