[pic] DESN 1800 The History and Theory of Art and Design 20010/11 Module Handbook Module Manager: Professor Ken Hay [pic] Section A: Basic Information Welcome to DESN 1800: The History and Theory of Art & Design. This module is an compulsory 20 credit module for all students in the School of Design. It is assessed through a 40 minute visual test (‘slide test’) (worth 30% of the overall
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censored and supported works of art. The United States government hesitantly created the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1965 to provide material support for deserving artists. Initially the government did not want to support individuals or groups of individuals because it feared that the works of art they created might end up being construed as national art and it only allowed NEA to be formed after being pressured by activists. The need to cease underwriting vulgar art became apparent in 1988
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Julie Hobbs-Marin Intercultural Communications September 5‚ 2012 Does Art Reflect Culture or Does Culture Reflect Art? As I first pondered this question the obvious answer seemed to be that art reflects culture. However‚ something didn’t sound quite right. Then I realized that although I feel that art does reflect culture it goes deeper than mere reflection. There is an old song from 1968‚ performed by the "Supremes" called Reflections and a part of the lyrics is a perfect example of what
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Importance of Arts in our lives It is usual human nature to admire beauty around us‚ such as we are often awe-struck when we see a painting‚ or read a beautiful poem‚ or listen to soothing music! We commonly associate art in terms of a painting or a sculpture we see in a museum or an art gallery‚ nonetheless‚ art is everywhere around us in many forms and holds a significant value in our lives. This article would talk about Art and its importance in our lives. It is difficult to describe “Art” in literal
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Asian art Asian art can refer to art amongst many cultures in Asia. Azerbaijani art Folk arts in Azerbaijan have a long and interesting history. Works of art made from metal extracted from Nakhichevan‚ Migachevir‚ Gadanay‚ Gandja and other places are approximately 5000 years old. Crockery‚ weapons and adornments found here are not historical facts alone‚ but valuable sources which testify the skills of the master. Different pictures‚ scraped on housing implements made from copper‚ bronze‚ gold
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How ought one to go about evaluating a work of art? The first thing I learned as an art major at St. Johns was how to evaluate a work of art or one that was in progress‚ often times it was a piece we got to pick at the Met or the Momma. Sometimes it was our classmate’s work that we had to critique and evaluate. It was this process that drove me away from the Art department. There was too much nit picking and it got to be a pain in the ass to sit there and listen to some power hungry professor ripping
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‘Art Deco’ was an art movement that flourished through the 1920’s and 1930’s. The decade opened up an extensive variety of original and distinctive styles and still remains to be the foundation of ‘an era so rich and so remote that at times it seems to belong to the unfathomable domain of dreams (Cocteau‚ n.d).’ Art Deco was a necessity at the time‚ due to the economic crisis and war. Society needed pop colour and creative‚ eccentric designs to brighten up the dull life they were living. People needed
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Art Nouveau Art nouveau‚ which simply means ‘New Art’‚ started around the 1890’s right till the First World War and was an artistic movement which started throughout most of Europe and eventually spread to the USA and the rest of the world. The name was taken from a shop in Paris called “la Maison de’l art nouveau”. It was an attempt to create a new style of art and to abandon the Victorian styles of the 19th century. This movement was said to be influenced by two very different styles of art
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Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British art critic/curator‚ Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The Arts and the Mass Media‚ although the term he uses is "popular mass culture" Nevertheless‚ Alloway was one of the leading critics to defend mass culture and Pop Art as a legitimate art form. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth
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Art and Intention ART/101 Tyrancer Journet University of Phoenix Adolf Mizzell October 19‚ 2014 Art and Intention Summarize the reaction of the public to Michelangelo’s David and Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. The Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending art work became one of the controversial works because people thought he was mocking the audience because they could not find a woman in the painting. The public did not like the Michelangelo’s David art work. They were offended by the nudity
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