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 2024 in Semester 2 and Summer B at Caulfield. It has no prerequisites and unlocks 1 unit, leading on to 2 units in all.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2024
- Semester 2, Summer B
- Caulfield
- Assessment
- No exam
- 3 tasks
This is the 2024 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before TDN1002
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After TDN1002
1 unit list TDN1002 as a prerequisite or corequisite.
Enrolment rules
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 2024
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
| Summer semester B | Caulfield | Online |
Assessment
- Class Presentation: Visualisation + Reading Report30%
- 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
Identify and describe the major movements of modernism in Design;
- 2
Recognise and analyse key examples of practices in design;
- 3
Discuss the legacy of the European avant-gardes and their lasting influence upon the social role of the designer;
- 4
Translate basic theoretical contexts in to practice;
- 5
Critique works of design, and articulate these analyses in both spoken and written form;
- 6
Identify questions and consider ways to search for information.
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Lectures12 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.
Learning resources
Required resources
Ghislaine Wood, Art Deco 1910-1939, ( Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008).
Elaine Hochman, ‘A Fragile Moment: Weimar, Gropius, and the Avant-Garde’ in Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism (New York: Fromm, 1997), pp. 45–57.
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.
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.
Charlotte Ashby, Modernism in Scandanavia : art, architecture and design, (London: Bloomsbury 2017).
Adolf Loos ‘Ornament & Crime’ (1908), in Adolf Loos, Adolf Opel (eds), Michael Mitchell (trans.), Ornament and Crime: selected essays (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1998).
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 36–44.
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.
Lucius Burckhardt, The Werkbund : studies in the history and ideology of the Deutscher Werkbund 1907-1933, ( London : Design Council, 1980).
Thomas Hine, ‘Populuxe’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg),152-157.
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.
Suprematism and Constructivism
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).
Christina Lodder, Russian Constructivism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985).
Alan Crawford, 'Ideas and Objects: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain', Design Issues, Vol. 13, No1, 1997, 15-26.
Richard Hollis, ‘Soviet Russia’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 44–51.
Nigel Whitely, 'Pop Consumerism and the Design Shift', Design Issues, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 31-45
The Industrial Revolution & The Birth of Design
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
Marin Sullivan, 'Materialising Modernism in Postwar Italy' Art History, Vol. 39, 2016 p.720-743
Richard Hollis, ‘The Beginnings of Design in Europe’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 25–31.
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.
Isabelle Anscombe, ‘The Rational Woman’ in A Woman’s Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present Day , (London: Virago, 1984), 131-144.
Hal Foster, 'Some Uses and Abuses of Russian Constructivism' in Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism 1914-1932, (New York: Rizzoli, 1990).
De Stijl /Bauhaus/The New Typography
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.
Frank Colebrook, William Morris: Master Printer (Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1989).
Filippo Marinetti, ‘The founding and manifesto of Futurism’ in Umbro Apollonio (ed.), Futurist manifestos (Boston: MFA Publications, 2001), pp. 19–24.
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.
Art Deco & American Modernism
Frederic Schwarz, ‘Commodity Signs: Peter Behrens, the AEG and the Trademark, Journal of Design History , Vol.9:3, 1996, 153-184.
David Hanks , American streamlined design : the world of tomorrow , (New York : Thames and Hudson, 2005).
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.
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.
Tilmann. Buddensieg Industriekultur : Peter Behrens and the AEG , 1907-1914, ( Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1984).
Richard Hollis, Swiss graphic design : the origins and growth of an international style , 1920-1965, (New Haven : Yale University Press , 2006).
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
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.
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.
The Arts & Crafts Movement
David Crowley, Cold War modern : design 1945-1970, ( London : V&A Publishing, 2008)
Jan Tschichold, ‘The Principles of the New Typography’ in The New Typography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), pp. 64–85.
Jan Thompson, ‘The Role of Women in the Iconography of Art Nouveau,’ Art Journal, Vol. 1:2, 1972, pp.158-167.
Dennis P. Doordan, 'The Advertising Architecture of Fortunato Depero' The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 12 1989, 46-55.
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.
Tim Benton, ‘Dreams of Machines: Futurism and l’Espirit Nouveau’, Journal of Design History , Vol.3:1, 1990, pp.19-34.
Mary Guyatt, 'The Wedgewood Slave Medallion: Values in Eighteenth Century Design,' Journal of Design History, Vol. 13, no.2, 2000, p.93-105.
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.
William Morris, ‘The Ideal Book’ in Grace Lees-Maffei & Rebecca Houze (eds), The Design History Reader (Oxford & New York: Berg), pp. 65–69.
Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ in Illuminations, Hannah Arendt (ed) (London: Fontana, 1973) pp. 211-35.
Christopher Breward, British design from 1948 : innovation in the modern age, ( London : V&A Publishing, 2008).
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
Richard Hollis, ‘The Netherlands’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 68–75.
Futurism/ WWI Political Posters/Dada
Richard Hollis, ‘Germany’ in Graphic Design: A Concise History (London: Thames & Hudson, 1994), pp. 52–67.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Jess Berry
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Jess Berry
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for TDN1002?
None, but you must take OHS1000 before or alongside it.
What can I take after TDN1002?
TDN1002 is a prerequisite or corequisite for 1 unit, including TDN2001. Those lead on to 2 units in all.
When is TDN1002 offered?
In 2024, TDN1002 runs in Semester 2 and Summer B at Caulfield, with an online option.
Does TDN1002 have an exam?
No. TDN1002 has 3 assessment tasks and no exam.