Course detail

History of Design - summer

FaVU-DEDE1-LAcad. year: 2011/2012

The history of graphic and industrial design and their formation after the World War II. The prototype of designer activities in traditional disciplines of handmade work and applied arts. The birth of the designer´s profession in the first period of the industrial revolution and its further transformations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Zdeno Kolesár, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The history of graphic and industrial design and their formation after the World War II.

Prerequisites

Without.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam conditions: Identification and interpretation of selected examples from the history of design according to projected transparencies (5 sets of transparencies) - in writing together with a talk.

Course curriculum

1. Typographic experiments from the 19th century to the World War I (Mallarmé, Apollinaire, futurism, dadaism).
2. Czech cubism in applied arts.
3.-4. Bauhaus.
5. Russian avant-garde.
6. Modernism in Holland.
7. Modernism in the Czech lands and Central Europe.
8.-9. Art Deco.
10.-11. Design in the US between two world wars.
12. Final recapitulation.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

To obtain historic-theoretical background which can be used during the solution of practical tasks.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lectures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dějin designu
Kolesár, Z.: Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu (CS)
Meggs, P.B.: Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Sparke, P.: Století designu

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch ATD , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM3 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AKG , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AM1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGD1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AIN , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AS1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AGD2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APD , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AVI , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AVI , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AEN , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch AMU , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch APE , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Zdeno Kolesár, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Typografické experimenty od konce 19. století po 1. svitovou válku (Mallarmé, Apollinaire, futurizmus, dadaizmus).
2. Eeský kubizmus v užitém uminí
3.-4. Bauhaus .
5. Ruská avantgarda.
6. Moderna v Holandsku.
7. Moderna v Eechách a ve stoední Evropi.
8. -9. Art déco.
10. - 11. Meziváleený design v USA.
12. Závěrečná rekapitulace