TAD3111

Modernism and visual challenge 3B

(A&D)

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3 points + 2 hours lecture/tutorial and 4 independent study hours per week + First semester + Caulfield + Prerequisites: 2 second-year level TAD units + Prohibitions: TAD2101, TAD2111, TAD3101

Synopsis: Transformations in European art and design in the first half of the twentieth century in a milieu of dramatic political, cultural, and technological change. The 'grammar' of painting, photography, poster design, typography and film formulated in the early decades of this century. Identification and evaluation of the central tenets of expressionism, futurism, cubism, suprematism and constructivism, dada and surrealism, Bauhaus, de Stijl and abstraction.

Assessment: Short essay (1200 words) 40% + Long essay (1500 words) including class presentation 55% + Class discussion 5%