Other modernisms 4 October 2023 Design / applied arts / craft Design •the way something has been made : the way the parts of something (such as a building, machine, book, etc.) are formed and arranged for a particular use, effect, etc. the process of planning how something will look, happen, be made •a drawing of something that is being planned or created •a decorative pattern that covers something : a repeating picture, shape, etc., on something (https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/design) Applied arts •Arts such as ceramics, furniture construction, decorative objects (such as jewellery) and so on, that are not considered ‘fine arts’. In this sense, applied arts are associated with crafts and design. Applied arts is also referred to, more pejoratively, as the ‘minor arts’. https://forarthistory.org.uk/keywords/ Craft •skill in planning, making, or executing •an occupation, trade, or activity requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/craft Pavilion de L'Esprit Nouveau – An avant-garde vision of the future Remember canon? •How are disciplines constructed? •Author (writer, creator) : he or she or they? Designing the Modern Movement: The Pioneers of Nikolaus Pevsner – Justin Zhuang Nikolaus Pevsner, The Pioneers of Modern Movement, 1936 Pioneers of Modern Design, 1949- Gender in modernism •Considering the role of women in art and design as makers, viewers, consumers, students, patrons… •Queering •Decentering •Questioning Materials and the decorative •What materials and art forms are traditionally associated with male and female practices? •https://www.menti.com/alrprjdr1khz Some literature •Pat Kirkham, Gendered Object (Manchester University Press, 1996). •Penny Sparke, As long as it’s pink. The sexual politics of taste (Pandora/Harper Collins, 1995). •Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (London: Women’s Press, 1983). •Joseph McBrinn, Queering the Subversive Stitch: Men and the Culture of Needlework (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).