Modernist design

Author: Cao Fang Wu Lieyan
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is one of the series "Modern Ten Major Design Concepts." It begins by analyzing the important background factors that contribute to the formation of concepts and ideas, such as different political and economic systems, production methods, social cultures, traditions, ethnic characteristics, and regional features. It further elaborates on more fundamental factors like lifestyles and methods, aesthetics, science, technology, and semantics, and their impact on the formation of design movements. Based on this, the book summarizes the formal techniques and stylistic characteristics of this trend, and provides an in-depth introduction to its representative theoretical viewpoints, significant events, branch schools, and key designers, as well as their representative works. The book is richly illustrated and compiles the main facts and viewpoints from published and literature both domestically and internationally. It introduces the analyses of design theorists, design historians, and design critics, as well as the diverse attitudes of various schools toward tradition, function, materials, structure, decoration, form, and visual language.