Portfolio Task 3

The essay question that I have chosen is the first:
"Focussing on specific examples, describe the way that Modernist art & design was a response to the forces of modernity"

I have also found some books in the college library that should be useful to the essay:

1. Reyner, B. (1980) Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 2nd edition, Massachusetts: MIT Press.   
(Library Reference 724.9)

2. Bauman, Z. (2003) Wasted Lives: Moderntiy and Its Outcasts, Cambridge: Polity press. 
(Library Reference 301.35)

3. Klanten, R. and Hellig, H. (2009) Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design, London: Die Gestalten Verlag.
(Library Reference 741.6)

4. Khaler, G. (2009) The Path of Modernism from  the World Heritage of Breslauto That of Dessau: The Architecture 1900-1930, Berlin: JOVIS Verlag.
(Library Reference 724.9)

5. Pare, R. (2007) The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932, New York: Monacelli Press.
(Library Reference 720.947)


These books range between the history of modernism and modernity, the beginning of modernist architecture and cover modernism in art and design and graphic design. I think that these will give me a good variety to work with when writing the essay.