Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture
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Product details:
- Edition number 1999
- Publisher Red Globe Press
- Date of Publication 5 January 1999
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780333642856
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 281 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book introduces the ideas of Modernism and their post-modern evolution in a clear and engaging argument that links the development of visual culture to the social and political conditions in which it is produced. It established the key critical terms of reference before taking the reader through the evolution of this century's visual culture in a wide-ranging and approachable way.
It was the cultural processes of the Enlightenment and the subsequent development of industrial cultures that informed the early ideas of Modernism and gave us our world of rapid communication, fast cars and cities filled with skyscrapers and consumer goods. It also gave us a world in which environmental disaster looms and there the cultural legacy of European colonialisation has still to be unravelled. The post-industrial, post-modern world of the internet and virtual reality is challenging the mono-culture of Modernism, and celebrates cultural diversity and multiplicity. But our new age has cultural problems that also need unpacking - in a world of many voices, whose voice now directs visual culture? The much lauded individual's or that of trans-national corporations?
Art, design and architecture do not exist in a vacuum, they are formed by the cultures from which they emerge. This book examines the way in which visual culture reflects its conceptual and physical origins in elite, and mass, cultural practices.
Long description:
This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. Art, design and architecture are located in their social and political contexts, and the ideas of modernism are traced from the development of industrialised Europe at the turn of the century to the post-industrial, post-colonial present. The complex relationship between modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts is examined and the book concludes with a review of the global impact of the new technologies on art and design production.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
The Cultural Background to the Machine Age
The Arts and Crafts, Revolution and Rusticity
The Machine Ethic, Functionalism and the Collective
Individualism, the Expressive Voice and the Unconscious
The Modernist Mass Media
Realism and Objectivity
High Modernism? or Modernism in Crisis?
After Modernism? or Developing Modernism?
Coda.
