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Lecturer(s)
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Polanecký Jaroslav, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Consequences of World War II for development of design after 1945. War effort versus post-war conversion. 2. Influence of ideologies on the sphere of industrial, product, and graphic design. Historical context from early 1930's to the end of 1980's. 3. Design of 1940's. New arrangement of the world. Economic and political context. 4. Presentation and theoretical reflection of design and applied art in the USA and Western Europe since 1940's. 5. Presentation and theoretical reflection of design and applied art in countries that after 1945 found themselves in the Soviet Union sphere of influence. 6. Design of 1950's. Visual trends following the prewar canons of international modernism (functionalism, art deco, organic design, utilitarian design) that do not succumb to ideological flattening. 7. Specifics of different development of design as presentation and theoretical evaluation in politically and economically different conditions of so-called West and East. Cold War. 8. Design of 1960's. Dynamic development of visual and material culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Technological development, space conquest, influence of new subcultures (rock, mods, psychedelia, hippies) and meaning of social, racial, and emancipatory social trends, including the erosion of colonial arrangement of the so- called Third World. 9. Influence of media and "popular" culture of formation of design between 1950 and 1970. Role of film, pictorials and especially television on formation of general awareness, taking into account differences in political arrangement of the world. 10. Design of 1970's and 1980's in the last two decades of the politically divided Euro-Atlantic area. Economic and political context. Fundamental influence of music subcultures (disco, punk, heavy metal, new romantics). Onset of new electronic technologies. 11. Turn of 1980's and 1990's. End of "Cold War" and "Iron Curtain". Beginning of internationalization of design liberated from ideological burden. 12. 1980's as the beginning of the computer era. Postmodern plurality and gradual conversion of the West and East. Influence of commercial aspects on the collapse of totalitarian systems. 13. 1990's. Cosmopolitan tendencies and onset of digital age. Gradual rehabilitation of the "eastern" design contribution on the one hand, and open-ended wiping out regional specifics on the other hand.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The course is intended fro student who have completed the courses of history of art, and history of applied art, and therefore, it focuses especially on issues of industrial and graphic design. The aim of the course is to provide a historical overview of the origin and development of design as a phenomenon linked with industrial mass production and information technologies, and to define clearly its position in the sphere of artistic and material culture. Great attention is as well paid to general development of modern civilization, technologies, and the importance of visual influence on material culture in broader context. Necessary part of the course is clarification of terminology, the term 'design' itself compared to applied art and art handicraft. The course has a form of lectures and seminars, being scheduled as necessary according to thematic areas, as well as current topics as integral part of the academic debate on the contents of a continuously developing subject. The course includes lectures by outcollege experts and guests, excursions and work in the field. Main thematic areas for winter semester: 1/Introduction to the issues, defining terms, 2/Origin of industrial design, 3/Design of 18th and 19th centuries, 4/Design of early 20th century.
The student is capable of a complex view of the contemporary design issues: material and technological innovations, current visual trends, economic aspects and marketing, environmental issues, ergonomics, and psychology. The student is able to prove their good knowledge of the discipline's state of the art and of the specialization of the studio they belong to: they know specific designers, studios, manufacturers, educational and exhibitory institutions, sources of information, and literature in the Czech Republic and abroad. The student has mastered terminology and has a notion of history of design and graphic design in historical context.
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Prerequisites
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Successful completion of the previous study
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Oral exam
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Recommended literature
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Adlerová, A. České užité umění 1918-1938. Praha, 1983.
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Bruthansová, T.; Králíček J. Czech 100 Design Icons. Praha, 2005.
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Collins, M. Towards Post-modernism. Design since 1851. London, 1994.
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Dormer, P. Design since 1945. London, 2003.
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Fairs, M. Design 21. století. Praha, 2007.
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Fiell, Ch. Fiell, P. Decorative Art 50´s. Koln, 2013.
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Fiell, Ch. Fiell, P. Decorative Art 60´s. Koln, 2013.
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Fiell, Ch. Fiell, P. Decorative Art 70´s. Koln, 2013.
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Fiell, Ch.; Fiell, P. Design of the 20th Century. Koln, 2005.
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Fiell, Ch. Fiell, P. Scandinavian Design. Koln, 2013.
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Heller, S.; Pettit, E. Graphic Design Time Line. New York, 2006.
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Hollis, R. Stručná historie grafického designu. Praha, 2015.
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Hubatová-Vacková, L.; Pachmanová, M.; Pečinková P. Věci a slova. Praha, 2014.
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Charlotte Fiell; Peter Fiell. Designing the 21st Century. Koln, 2005.
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Knobloch, I.; Vondráček, R. Design v českých zemích 1900-2000. Praha, academia, 2016.
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Kolečková, Z.; Koleček, M. (eds.). Design Ústí. Ústí nad Labem, 2015.
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Kolesár, Z. Kapitoly z dějin designu. AAAD, Praha, 2004.
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Kolesár, Z. Kapitoly z dejín grafického dizajnu. Bratislava, 2006.
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Meggs, P. B.; Purvis, A. W. Meggs´History of Graphic Design. New Jersey, 2006.
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Morant, H. de. Dějiny užitého umění. Odeon, 1983.
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Morteo, E. Design - Atlas. Von 1850 bis Heute. Koln, 2010.
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Pelcl, J. Český design 1995-2000. Praha, 2001.
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Rileyová, N. Dějiny užitého umění. Praha, 2004.
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Vlček, T. Expresionismus a české umění 1905-1927. Praha, 1995.
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