Theory of design 2
3 points * One 1-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week * Second semester * Caulfield * Prerequisite: DES1001
Objectives On successful completion of this subject students should be able to express aesthetic intuitions confidently; using analysis and argument, gain skills in linking visual observation to cultural values; and to represent knowledge of the historical, ideological and spiritual discourses in art and design as integral to the effective representation of intuitive ideas.
Synopsis This subject follows the history and theory of art and design from the industrial revolution to the present time. Examining the paradigm of western progress, the subject identifies various critiques of modernity and modernism. Reactions in art and design to technological change are compared to spiritual or ideological developments, particularly (i) the romantic rejection of the rationalist enlightenment, (ii) the modernist rejection of the authority of ornament and narrative and (iii) the postmodern rejection of totalising modernist assumptions.
Assessment One assignment (1500 words): 30% * One assignment (2500 words): 50% * One test: 20%
Recommended texts
Chipp H Theories of modern art U California P, 1968 or later edn
Honour H Romanticism Pelican, 1981 or later edn
Nelson R Cultural hypochondria in the age of industrial design Monash U, Dept Industrial Design, 1992
Nelson R Inspections Monash U, Peninsula School of Art, 1995
Wolfe T From Bauhaus to our house Abacus, 1987 or later edn
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