VISD 2B09 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visual Pun, Edward Mcknight Kauffer, Jean Carlu
25 Feb 2016
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Next week after midterm = international constructivism, american magazines, cooperate designs in fifties and sixties. World war 1 casualties: 17 million dead, 20 million wounded. Not everyone was feeling great about the posters made, so people got together to form the movement that"s known as dada: literary of the artistic. Reflecting the absurdity of the world, the insanity of war and dead, reflecting that idea back to the audiences. Utterly break down the sense of the great culture of europe: instead artists saw shouting soldiers, killing soldiers about the abstract idea of killing. The purpose is to reflect the nonsense in the world: sense of not making sense, graphic designers new approaches to layout, texts, typography, juxtaposition of images, there is no point of reading them, even if you tried. Strong sense of the absurd: self portrait that doesn"t represent self. Grew up surrounded by the greatness of italian culture of antiquity.
