THTR 301B - 001
Artistic, decorative, cultural, and social contexts of selected theatrical genres and periods.
Year: 2011/12 W (Term 2)
Tuesday, Thursday 10:00–12:00 am
Room 112, Frederic Wood Theatre
Resource Website:
http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/dress_decor
Instructor: Ronald Fedoruk
Office: Rm 113, Frederic Wood Theatre
Phone: 604-822-3707
email: rfedoruk@mail.ubc.ca
http://conceptu-alley.arts.ubc.caOffice hours: TBA
This course will explore the relationship between the architecture, the fine and performing arts, decor, and dress of western civilization. Using visual examples, the cultural and social contexts of selected periods will be discussed. The elements of design - line, form and the use of colour - will be analyzed and comparisons made among the various period styles. It should be a useful resource for students of theatre design and production, theatre history, and performance.
Schedule:
Jan 5 Intro/Website/Assignments
Process, Pronunciation and Practical example
Jan 10/12
Paleolithic Art: Who were those guys ?!
Jan 17/19
Sumerians walk like an Egyptian
Jan 31/Feb 2
Friends, Romans
& Countrymen
TAKE HOME QUIZ: Ancient and Classical Dress & Decor
PRESENTATION RUBRIC
Feb 7 - Feb 9
The Baroque: Oh, Watteau time it was!
Feb 14/16
Romanticism: La Bastille et Sturm und Drang
Feb 21/23 - Midterm Break
No Classes
Feb 28/Mar 1
1960: Beats and the Beatles
1970: Acid and AC/DC
Mar 6/Mar 8-
1980: Hard Bodies and Soft Rock
1990 Boomers and Boom Cars
Mar 13 / Mar 15- Priviledge and Postmodernism
TAKE HOMEQUIZ #2: Baroque, Romantic & 20thC. Dress & Decor
Mar 20/22 - PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Mar 27/29 - PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Apr 3/5 - PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Grading:
Quiz #1: 20%
Quiz #2: 20%
Project: 25%
Exam: 25%
Participation: 10%
Bibliography:
Primary information and Required Reading
is the Resource Website at:
http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/dress_decor
A General Bibliography and additional resource information for Designers is available at:
http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/thtr505
Additional resource information specific to THTR 301:François Boucher, 20,000 Years of Fashion , Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987
James Laver and Christina Probert: Costume and Fashion : a concise history, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Phyllis G. Tortora and Keith Eubank, Survey of Historic Costume , Fairchild Publications, New York, 2005
Costume Society of America: Dress. New York, Costume Society of America, 1975-2008
Joanne B. Eicher, ed: Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time, Oxford ; Washington, D.C., Berg, 1995.
Joanne B. Eicher, Sandra Lee Evenson, Hazel A. Lutz: The Visible Self : global perspectives on dress, culture, and society , New York : Fairchild Publications, 2008.
Janetta Rebold Benton, Robert DiYanni: Arts and Culture : an introduction to the humanities, Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1999, 2005.
E.H. Gombrich: The Sense of Order : a study in the psychology of decorative art , London : Phaidon Press, 1984
Dick Hebdige: Subculture: the Meaning of Style [electronic resource] London, Routledge, 1988
Online access: Connect to MyiLibrary resourceHugh Honour and John Fleming, The Visual Arts, A History , Prentice Hall, Inc., 2002
John Fleming and Hugh Honour: The Penguin Dictionary of the Decorative Arts , London, Viking, 1989.
Simon Unwin: Analysing Architecture Taylor & Francis, 2003
Online access: Connect to MyiLibrary resourceJohn Morley, The History of Furniture , Little, Brown and Co., 1999
Aronson, Joseph: The Encyclopedia of Furniture, New York, Crown Publishers, 1965
Hayward, Helena, Douglas Ash: World Furniture : an illustrated history , New York, McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Douglas A. Russell, Period Style for the Theatre, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1980
Dennis P. Doordan, ed: Design History : an anthology, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1995.
Marilyn Stokstad, Art History , Prentice Hall, Inc., Harry Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995
Frederick Hartt: Art : a history of painting, sculpture, architecture, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1989.
Ann Ferebee, A History of Design from the Victorian Age to the Present , 1970, Van Nostrand, New York
Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin and Trevor Keeble: The Modern Period Room [electronic resource] : the construction of the exhibited interior 1870 to 1950
Online access: Connect to MyiLibrary resourceBrenda Martin, Penny Sparke: Women's Places : Architecture and Design 1860-1960 London , New York, Routledge, 2003.
Online access: Connect to MyiLibrary resourceMaxine Berg: The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820, London, New York, Routledge, 1994.
Online access: Connect to MyiLibrary resourceNeil McKendrick, John Brewer, J.H. Plumb: The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1982.
Frank Russell: Art Nouveau Architecture, New York, Rizzoli, 1979.
Paul Greenhalgh, ed: Art Nouveau : 1890-1914, London, Victoria and Albert Museum ; Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, 2000.
Adrian Forty: Objects of Desire, New York : Pantheon Books, 1986.
Peter Collins: Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture, 1750-1950, Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press, c1998.
Charles Jencks and Karl Kropf, eds: Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, Chichester, England ; Etobicoke, Ont. ,Wiley-Academy, c2006.
David Revere McFadden ed: Scandinavian Modern Design, 1880-1980, New York : Abrams, 1982.
Marianne Aav, et al: Finnish Modern Design : utopian ideals and everyday realities, 1930-1997 , New Haven : Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts : Yale University Press, c1998.
Sacheverell Sitwell: British Architects and Craftsmen: a survey of taste, design, and style during three centuries, 1600 to 1830, London, B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1945
David Hicks: Style and Design, Harmondsworth, New York, Viking, 1987.
Ernest F. Fenollosa: Epochs of Chinese & Japanese Art : an outline history of East Asiatic design , New York ; Tokyo : ICG Muse; Tokyo 2000.
Michiaki Kawakita: Introduction to Japanese Art, Tokyo, Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1963.
Penny Sparke: Japanese Design , New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2009
David N. Buck: Responding to Chaos : Tradition, Technology, Society, and Order in Japanese Design, London ; New York : E & FN Spon, 2000.
Author??: Chinese Designs & Symbols. New York : Art Resources for Teachers & Students, 1991, c1982.
Lion, Daisy Goldschmidt: Chinese Art . London : Studio Books, c1960
Frank Willett: African Art : an Introduction, New York, Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Trowell, Margaret: African Design, London, Faber & Faber 1965, c1960
Reg Ashwell: Coast Salish : their art, culture and legends, Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House, c1978.
Bill Holm: Northwest Coast Indian Art, Seattle, Iniversity of Washington, 1965
Peter Macnair, Robert Joseph, Bruce Grenville: Down from the Shimmering Sky : Masks of the Northwest Coast , Seattle, : University of Washington Press, 1998.
Dmitri V. Sarabianov: Russian Art : from neoclassicism to the avant garde, 1800-1917 , London : Thames and Hudson, 1990.
Robert Auty and Dimitri Obolensky eds: Introduction to Russian Art and Architecture, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Richard Pare: The Lost Vanguard : Russian modernist architecture 1922-1932 , New York : Monacelli Press, 2007.
Trowell, Margaret: African Design, New York, Praeger,1960
Allan Hanson and Louise Hanson eds: Art and Identity in Oceania, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
Anthony Bradley & Terry Smith eds: Australian Art and Architecture, Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1980.
Roland and Sabrina Michaud, Michael Barry; Colour and Symbolism in Islamic Architecture : eight centuries of the tile-maker's art . London : Thames and Hudson, c1996 .
Leland M. Roth: American Architecture : a history, Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 2001.
Hayward Gallery: Art of Ancient Mexico. London : South Bank Centre, 1992.
Harold Kalman: History of Canadian Architecture, Toronto, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.
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