Art 100: Introduction to Art History

Lecture/
Text and Image

Overview
Show and Tell
Pictographic or Phonetic
Modernism
Modern Comic

This lecture will examine the relationship of text and image. For the last 5000 years our cyulture has witnessed a steady alientation between words and pictures. Finally, in the modern times, the combination of printing, commerce and advertising began to find new ways to integrate the two.

• How does education affect attitudes towards the integration of words and pictures?

• What is modernism and in what ways was it a reversal of the old paradigm of the separation of resemblance from meaning?

• What is the difference between a language based on pictures and one based on sounds?

• What happens when a new art form is judged by old standards?

• What is art's relationship to communication and graphic design?

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