Assignment: History of Modern Design: 1850 - Present fall 2017
Return to the textbook pgs. 596 - 605, up to "Design for Industry", to answer the following questions; type your answers to turn in in Discussion Section, and number/letter your answers, just as before.
1. a) What increasingly popular new movement in the early 1900's was strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau?
b) What was the link between specifically Arts & Crafts ideas and the aims of this new movement?
c) Why do you think this new movement can be considered "Romantic"?
2. a) What was the Wiener Werkstatte?
b) What sort of reform was it most concerned with?
c) Who was it designing for, and how was that similar to or different from the Arts &Crafts movement?
d) What were some of its stylistic sources or inspirations?
e) What does Gesamptkunstwerk mean (look it up)?
3. Connect the work of CR Mackintosh and the Glasgow designers to any of the other styles or movements we have been discussing from the late 19th or very early 20th centuries. Choose at least 3 specific characteristics or ideas/attitudes from this version of Art Nouveau that you think resemble, contrast with, or otherwise relateto either the mainstream Victorian ("more") or new styles and movements we've been discussing in the last week, using specific key terms from the notes or from the reading.
a) MackIntosh/Scottish Art Nouveau as compared with Victorian mainstream (Hist/Eclect/Exotic).
b) M/S Art Nouveau as compared with the Arts & Crafts movement.
c) Aesthetic Movement.
7. In the sub-section on North America, the authors discuss the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, specifically his concept of "organic" design.
a) What did organic mean in his work (briefly)?
b) How does that concept relate to the idea of Gesamptkunstwerk mentioned in the section onVienna?
c) Which term of the 7 characteristics of Modern design we learned several weeks ago comes closest to this idea?
8. a) What form did Romantic Nationalism take, mainly, in North America?
b) Can you see any possible connection between this and the Arts and Crafts Movement? Explain.