CTS SEMINAR 3- writing critically

• condense but keep its contents 
• MODERNISM - anything that reflects and interacts with society and the world around them
• rejection of ornament (Adolf Loos, (1908) Ornament and Crime)
• trying to attack decorative designs and fashionable style because it's superficial and when you use a fashionable style it limits it, it dates it and gives it a time period
• modernism doesn't date, its for the future forever
• form follows function (Louis Sullivan, (1896) 'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered)
• wanted a tall office building to look like a tall office building that's meant to fit a lot of people
• Cheret, (1884) Toulouse-Lautree (1891) - posters are considered modernist because they are reacting to society
• not all modernist design will have the exact same traits e.g. form follows function and social relevance
• minimalistic work/using fonts/no decorations
• futurist designers - Marinetti (manifesto), Fortunato Depero (1927) bolted book
• aesthetic = the way something looks
• pet, Appollinaire (1918) Il pleut
• Boyne and Rattansi
• Postmodernism and society
• Aesthetic Self-Reflexivness - reflecting upon itself and the medium  they're made in e.g. Jackson Pollock (not an attempt to represent something the work is
• Montage - combining more than one media e.g. photography and print
• Paradox - ambiguity and uncertainty - multiple meanings
• loss of the integrated individual subject - losing sight of fixed identity
• optimistic - Utopian
• conclusion - no essence of modernist art and design that's shared by all - just family resemblances
• modernism moves away from illusionist 'realistic' way of depicting the world and instead relies on signs and symbols.