Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: "C-" or better in (ART 2200 AND ART 2250 AND ART 2300 AND ART 2350 AND ART 2400)
Description
An overview of the history of graphic communication. Topics covered include: the invention of the written language, the origin of printing, graphic design in the Renaissance and Victorian eras, Art Nouveau, Pictorial Modernism, International Typographic Style, Post-Modernism, contemporary conceptual and "new wave" movements. Emphasis is on the Post-Art Nouveau eras.