AR 570 Modernism and Post-Modernism in Design

The course examines the role of international design in relation to an emerging industrial world and advances in technology during the late 19th century through the 20th century. This course will focus on various graphic design movements from De Stijl and Dada to the impact of the Bauhaus and the International Typographic Style; from the sixties psychedelia to the punk seventies and postmodern eighties and nineties. Students assess the integration of art and design with new technologies and consider the effects of war, mass-production, and urbanization. Students also engage with the changing meaning of design in an age of postmodernist deconstruction, pluralism, and irreverence at the turn of the new millennium. Graduate students can expect an individual project in art history chosen and planned by the student with approval of the instructor.

Credits

3