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Literature & Graphic Design
ENGL 197, Spring 2002, Alan Liu 		Notes for Class 17
This page contains materials intended to facilitate class discussion (excerpts from readings, outlines of issues, links to resources, etc.). The materials are not necessarily the same as the instructor's teaching notes and are not designed to represent a full exposition or argument. This page is subject to revision as the instructor finalizes preparation. (Last revised 5/28/02 )


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Sixties "Design"

Crying of Lot 49 Book Covers

Tiedye, Batik, and Hair (compare Bauhaus & International Style)

  • Tie-dye clothing: 1 | 2 | 3
  • Batik clothing: 1 | 2 | 3
  • Hair: 1 | 2

The Volkswagen

 

 

David Carson

  • David Carson's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
  • David Carson Design (Home Page)

April Greiman

Postmodern Interior Design

Tomas Taveira, Transfigured Bookcase, 1985Tomas Taveira, Transfigured Bookcase, 1985  
  Zaha Hadid, Wavy Back Sofa, 1987-88Zaha Hadid, Wavy Back Sofa, 1987-88
Frank Gehry, Ryba Lamp, 1983Frank Gehry, Ryba Lamp, 1983  

 

Postmodern Architecture

  • Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles: image sites A B C D E

  • Frank Gehry House, Santa Monica — Images: A B C

  • Frank Gehry, California Aerospace Museum: Images

  • Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao: Images

  • Whitney Museum of American Art (with Michael Graves's rejected expansion scheme): images

More Postmodern Architecture

The X-Principle

Peter Eisenman, House III for Robert Miller, 1971Peter Eisenman, House III for Robert Miller, 1971 House III, interior
   
   House III, interior
   
Peter Eisenman, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio, 1990Peter Eisenman, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio, 1990
   
Frank Gehry, RMid-Atlantic Toyota Distributorship Offices, 1978Frank Gehry, Mid-Atlantic Toyota Distributorship Offices, 1978 Frank Gehry, RMid-Atlantic Toyota Distributorship Offices, 1978

The "Decorated Shed"

Decorated ShedDuck BuildingLas VegasRobert Venturi,
Learning from Las Vegas
(MIT Press, 1977)
Venturi, Rauch, & Scott Brown, Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton, NJ, 1982-84Venturi, Rauch, & Scott Brown, Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton, NJ, 1982-84
Venturi, Rauch, & Scott Brown, Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton, NJ, 1982-84
 
  Michael Graves, Portland Public Services Building, Portland, OR, 1980-82Michael Graves, Portland Public Services Building, Portland, OR, 1980-82
Eric Owen Moss, 708 House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1981Eric Owen Moss, 708 House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, 1981  
  Frank Gehry, California Aerospace Museum, Los Angeles, 1982-84Frank Gehry, California Aerospace Museum, Los Angeles, 1982-84

(Whitney Museum of American Art with Michael Graves's
rejected expansion scheme: images)

 

Charles Bernstein, "You" (1983)

T. S. Eliot, from The Waste Land

F. S. Flint, "Fragment"
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