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Monday 4 February 2013

Critical and Cultural Studies Lesson 2

INTRO TO DESIGN & DECOR ARTS POST 1950

TODAY'S KEY WORDS:

William Morris 

 - soul in the relationship between the object and the creator neccessary
-against mass production ex. T model Ford
- influenced by Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Dante Babriel Rossetti

- Elizabeth Siddal
-Jane Morris (William Morris's wife)

William Henry Perkin

-inventor of dye
-the color purple was the most expensive color to create which usually king and queens were used
-Queen Victoria was the first one who wore artificial purple dyed garment

Modernism

-Function, Comfort, Chic, Minimalism. 



next week topic: Futurism
relevant resource: Fritz Lang - Metropolis (1926)
Aldous Huxley-Brave New World

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