Tuesday 19 January 2010

Portfolio Task 3

Choose one of the essay questions below and produce a preliminary bibliography (in Harvard) of 5 books, from the Leeds College of Art library, that you think may be useful. Include a library reference also (e.g. MIL 709.12)

  1. Focussing on specific examples, describe the way that Modernist art & design was a response to the forces of modernity
  2. Choosing a particular period from 1800 to the present, in what ways has art or design responded to the changing social and cultural forces of that period? (2 specific examples)
  3. Is it possible to describe any aspect of visual communication today as post-modern(ist)?
  4. Could it be argued that fine art ought to be assigned more 'value' than visual communication?
  5. 'Advertising doesn't sell things; all advertising does is change the way people think or feel' (Jeremy Bullmore). Evaluate this statement with reference to selected critical theories