UnitLevel 1Undergraduate

TDN1002 Design and the avant-garde

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

TDN1002 Design and the avant-garde is a level 1, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, offered in 2022 in Semester 2 at Caulfield. It has no prerequisites and unlocks 2 units, leading on to 3 units in all.

Credit points
6
Offered in 2022
Semester 2
Caulfield
Assessment
No exam
3 tasks

This is the 2022 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.

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Requisites

Before TDN1002

No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.

After TDN1002

2 units list TDN1002 as a prerequisite or corequisite.

Enrolment rules

Prerequisites: AHT1101 or TAD1101

Prohibitions: AHT1102, TAD1102, TAD2101, TAD2214

Overview

This unit examines the history of European Modernism as it relates to the disciplines of visual communication, industrial design and spatial design. Key Modernist movements and practices are studied with particular consideration given to their ideological, political and cultural contexts and motives. The critical tendencies of twentieth-century avant-garde practices are considered in terms of their lasting implications for the social role of design. You will develop a range of critical approaches to analysing design in relation to its historical, social and cultural context skills necessary to your disciplines and practice.

Offerings in 2022

Teaching periodCampusMode
Second semesterCaulfieldOn campus

Assessment

  • Class Presentation: Visualisation + Reading Report
    30%
  • Long Essay (Research Essay)
    60%
  • On-going Assessment task: Visual Journal (1% for each week)
    10%

Learning outcomes

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

  1. 1

    Identify and describe the major movements of modernism in Design;

  2. 2

    Recognise and analyse key examples of practices in design;

  3. 3

    Discuss the legacy of the European avant-gardes and their lasting influence upon the social role of the designer;

  4. 4

    Translate basic theoretical contexts in to practice;

  5. 5

    Critique works of design, and articulate these analyses in both spoken and written form;

  6. 6

    Identify questions and consider ways to search for information.

Workload and teaching

  • Lectures12 hours
  • Tutorials24 hours
  • Teaching approachActive learning

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Learning resources

Required resources

De Stijl /Bauhaus/The New Typography

Ghislaine Wood, Art Deco 1910-1939, ( Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008).

Charlotte Ashby, Modernism in Scandanavia : art, architecture and design, (London: Bloomsbury 2017).

Erika Doss, 'Revolutionary art is a tool for liberation: Emory Douglass and Protest Aesthetics at the Black Panther' New Political Science , Vol. 21, No.2 , 245- 259.

Christopher Breward, British design from 1948 : innovation in the modern age, ( London : V&A Publishing, 2008).

Suprematism and Constructivism

Alan Crawford, 'Ideas and Objects: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain', Design Issues, Vol. 13, No1, 1997, 15-26.

Jan Thompson, ‘The Role of Women in the Iconography of Art Nouveau,’ Art Journal, Vol. 1:2, 1972, pp.158-167.

Frederic Schwarz, ‘Commodity Signs: Peter Behrens, the AEG and the Trademark, Journal of Design History , Vol.9:3, 1996, 153-184.

Dennis P. Doordan, 'The Advertising Architecture of Fortunato Depero' The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 12 1989, 46-55.

Mary Guyatt, 'The Wedgewood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth Century Design,' Journal of Design History, Vol. 13, no.2, 2000, p.93-105.

Debora Silverman, ‘Introduction: Transformation of Art Nouveau 1890-1900, in Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle Frances: Politics, Psychology and Style, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), pp. 1-13.

Rebecca Houze, ' From Wiener Kunst im Hause to the Wiener Werkstätte: Marketing Domesticity with Fashionable Interior Design' Design Issues , Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 2002), pp. 3-23.

Richard Hollis, ‘The Beginnings of Design in Europe’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 25–31.

The Arts & Crafts Movement

Richard Hollis, ‘Germany’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 52–67.

Elaine Hochman, ‘A Fragile Moment: Weimar, Gropius, and the Avant-Garde’ in Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism (New York: Fromm, 1997), pp. 45–57.

Lucius Burckhardt, The Werkbund : studies in the history and ideology of the Deutscher Werkbund 1907-1933, ( London : Design Council, 1980).

Philip Meggs, ‘The Genesis of Twentieth-Century Design’ in Meggs’ History of Graphic Design , fifth edition, Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012), pp. 232–251.

Richard Hollis, ‘The Netherlands’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 68–75.

Jan Tschichold, ‘The Principles of the New Typography’ in The New Typography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 64–85.

Richard Huelsenbeck, ‘En Avant Dada: a history of Dadaism’ in Will Bradley and Charles Esche (eds), Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader (London: Tate Publishing, 2008), pp. 60–67.

Vance Packard, ‘How to outmode a $4000 Vehicle in Two Years- From the Wastemakers’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg) pp. 226-230.

The Industrial Revolution & The Birth of Design

Frank Colebrook, William Morris: Master Printer (Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1989).

Futurism/ WWI Political Posters/Dada

David Hanks , American streamlined design : the world of tomorrow , (New York : Thames and Hudson, 2005).

Pat Kirkham, 'Reassessing the Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock Collaboration', West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture , Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 2011), pp. 50-85

Nigel Whitely, 'Pop Consumerism and the Design Shift', Design Issues, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 31-45

Richard Hollis, ‘Soviet Russia’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 44–51.

Filippo Marinetti, ‘The founding and manifesto of Futurism’ in Umbro Apollonio (ed.), Futurist manifestos (Boston: MFA Publications, 2001), pp. 19–24.

Christina Lodder, 'Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design', Tate Papers , no.14, Autumn 2010, http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/14/liubov-popova-from-painting-to-textile-design, accessed 19 May 2017.

Tim Benton, ‘Dreams of Machines: Futurism and l’Espirit Nouveau’, Journal of Design History , Vol.3:1, 1990, pp.19-34.

Nicolas Maffei, ‘The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: From Art Deco to Streamlining in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg), pp120-126

Pier Vittorio Aureli, ‘Autonomy and History’ in The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), pp. 4–14.

Thomas Hine, ‘Populuxe’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg),152-157.

David Crowley, Cold War modern : design 1945-1970, ( London : V&A Publishing, 2008)

Marin Sullivan, 'Materialising Modernism in Postwar Italy' Art History, Vol. 39, 2016 p.720-743

Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ in Illuminations, Hannah Arendt (ed) (London: Fontana, 1973) pp. 211-35.

Hal Foster, 'Some Uses and Abuses of Russian Constructivism' in Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism 1914-1932, (New York: Rizzoli, 1990).

Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 36–44.

Philip Meggs, ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement and Its Heritage’ in Meggs’ History of Graphic Design , fifth edition, Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012), pp. 176–195

Adolf Loos ‘Ornament & Crime’ (1908), in Adolf Loos, Adolf Opel (eds), Michael Mitchell (trans.), Ornament and Crime: selected essays (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1998).

Philip Meggs, ‘The Influence of Modern Art’ in Meggs’ History of Graphic Design , fifth edition, Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2012), pp. 256–275.

Isabelle Anscombe, ‘The Rational Woman’ in A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present Day , (London: Virago, 1984), 131-144.

Christina Lodder, Russian Constructivism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).

Jeremy Aynsley, Art Deco Graphic Design and Typography, in Art Deco 1910-1939 , edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislain Wood, V&A Publications, London 2005, pp. 297-303.

Gillian Naylor ‘From Workshop to Laboratory, From the Bauhaus Reassessed’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg), 115-119.

Art Deco & American Modernism

Sarah Alford, 'Ellen Gates Starr and Frank Lloyd Write at Hull House: The Machine as the Will of Life' Journal of Design History, 2017, epx012. doi: 10.1093/jdh/epx012.

John Heskett, ‘The American System and Mass Production – from Industrial Design', Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg), 70-74.

Tilmann. Buddensieg Industriekultur : Peter Behrens and the AEG , 1907-1914, ( Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1984).

William Morris, ‘The Ideal Book’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg), pp. 65–69.

Varvara Stepanova, ‘Constructivism: The General Theory of Constructivism’ in Aleksandr Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and Peter Noever (eds), The future is our only goal (New York: Neues Pub. Co, 1991).

Richard Hollis, Swiss graphic design : the origins and growth of an international style , 1920-1965, (New Haven : Yale University Press , 2006).

Contacts

Chief Examiners
Dr Jess Berry
Unit Coordinators
Dr Jess Berry

Common questions

What are the prerequisites for TDN1002?

TDN1002 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.

What can I take after TDN1002?

TDN1002 is a prerequisite or corequisite for 2 units, including TDN2001 and TDN2002. Those lead on to 3 units in all.

When is TDN1002 offered?

In 2022, TDN1002 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield.

Does TDN1002 have an exam?

No. TDN1002 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.

More details

Credit points
6
Level
1
Study level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational unit
Department of Design
Type
Coursework
EFTSL
0.125
Student contribution
SCA Band 2
Study abroad
Available