Description
[Modern] This course examines the development of design from the 19th century to the present, with particular attention focused on its relationship with other major art, architecture, and design movements. These are viewed in the context of political, social, economic, scientific, and cultural developments that occurred throughout history. Architecture, graphic design, industrial design, “decorative arts,” product design, photography, painting, television, film, and new technologies all affect each other in fluid and often unpredictable ways. Since the course deals as much with history as with art, students will also learn and be expected to understand the different historical events, media, and philosophical theories that inform the work presented in the class, as well as relate how these “design” objects are inextricably connected to the “fine arts” of the period from which they come.