This first class will explore what it means and how to consider the theoretical reading in ways that are personally meaningful. As Kate Turabian recommends: “When you take notes on a source thoughtfully, you engage not just is words and ideas, but its implications, consequences, shortcoming, and new possibilities. Engage you source as if its writer were sitting with you, eager for a conversation.”
In class:
> Introduce class and discuss requirements.
> Read and discuss handout on note-taking
> Review readings:
>>> John Ruskin, 1852, “Modern Manufacture and Design,” Selections and Essays, Scribner’s, 1918.
>>> Louis Sullivan, 1892, “Ornament in Architecture.” Form and Function, edited by Benton and Sharp, Open University Press, 1975.
>>> William Morris, 1893, “Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press.” Form and Function, edited by Benton and Sharp, Open University Press, 1975.
> Read and annotate William Morris, 1893, “Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press”
Class Presentation: Download ornamentbeauty.pdf
Assignment for February 11:
Read and annotate each of the following readings. Before class on Monday, post your annotations as Comments to the February 11, 2008 posting that I'll put up on that date.
Avant Modern
>>> Adolf Loos, 1908, "Ornament and Crime" (reader)
>>> F. T Marinetti, 1913, "Destruction of Syntax- Imagination Without Strings — Words-in-Freedom" (Looking Closer 3)
>>> Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, 1920, "The Program of the Productivist Group" (Looking Closer 3)
>>> Theo VanDoesburg, 1922, "The Will to Style," Form and Function,
edited by Benton and Sharp, Open University Press, 1975. (reader)
