Writing up notes

Notes from 1st lecture 14th september

-Modernism, Breaking the rules- Andrew Slatter

note: read weekend papers. this will keep you informed on the latest art trends/exhibitions/scandals etc.

-Study modernism before post modernism.  A fairly obvious route to take. How can you understand the aftermath of anything if you don't know where it first originated. Only once I ca grasp the purest definition of what 'Modernism' reall means can I understand it's post form.

Book- modernism, designing a new world.
           Dan friedman- radical modernism
Exhibition catalouge- post modernism

Modernism 

• Univalence: singular- bauhaus table lamp- carl jakob- bauhaus manifesto
• purpose: Beatricse warde- the crystal goblet sixteen essays on typography
• Design:
• Idividual: (hectic)
• Timless:
• Simplification: Dieter Rams ''As little design as possible''
• homogeneity
• Universalism
• Metroplolis
• Originality
• Authority
• Depth
• Time
• Blue colour
• Performance
• Production
• Centralis

Postmodernism

• Multivalence
• Play:
• Change:
• Plural:
• Historical:
• Localism:
• Counter:
• Pastiche:
• Eclecticism:
• Surface
• Space:
• White collar:
• Ephemeiality:
• Reproduction
• Decentralism