- Terms - 'Modern', 'Modernity'
- Modernity - Industrialisation, urbanism - the city
- Modern artist responses to city
- Psychology & subjective experience
- Modernism design
- If we start to think about subjective experience we start to come close to understanding modern art and the experience of modernity.
- 1850 - At the time 'Modern' meant 'of the moment'
- Late 19th/20th century 'modern' meant improved version
- Modern - most cutting edge, progressive art etc - goes through until about 1960's/70's. Optimism & faith in the new.
- Modernism dies, according to Charles Jenks - 15/07/72 - the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe (St Louis), 20 yrs after it was built.
- Eiffel tower - 1889 - domination of modernism
- Paris 1900 - 'Modern' city of the world - culturally trying to be most modern country (beat London)
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| Paris 1900's |
- 'Trottior Roulant' - electric moving walkway
- People's life becomes regulated by factory times instead of sunrise/set - new concept of times - world time is standardised because of railways
- New technology - railways, telephone, electric cars
- World 'shrinks' as it becomes a 'knowledge plane'
- life rapidly changes & accelerates
- leisure - cinema, shopping - hyde park picture house
- Enlightenment project - late 18thC - scientific/philosophical thinking made - people stopped listening to religion
- Hausman redesigns Paris - 1850's
- Old Paris - narrow streets & rundown housing - lots of crime
- New Paris was made to be easier to police. Designed to accommodate modern life
- Kaiser Panorama - 1890's
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| Kaiser Panorama |
- fashion becomes important - telling people who you are
- Cropping became popular - like a photo
- Max Nordau - anti-modernism pointillism
- Modernism in Design
- Anti- historicism
- Truth to material
- Form follows function - stripped down aesthetic
- Technology
- Internationalism
- Bauhaus - simplicity - functionality first
- Modernism education - interdisciplinary
- functional decisions instead of aesthetic decisions
- Own typeface - sans serif fonts Futura etc.
- Building Utopian life
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| Bauhaus building |
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| Modernist cutlery |
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| Modernist furniture |
- Herbert Bayer - Sans serif typeface - franktur font Germany - Times new Roman - signifies british greatness - nationalism not internationalism
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| Universal vs ITC Bauhaus |
http://www.type.nu/bayer/index.html
- A language of design that could be recognised and understood on an international basis - internationalism
- Technology - new material
- mass production - cheaper & quicker
- Modernity - 1750 - 1960
- Modernism - the range of ideas & styles that sprang from modernity
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