Visual Period Styles for Theatre

About the Course

Course Description

Introduction to art, architecture, interior design, and clothing history, including social and economic factors that influenced development. Through research and critical thinking, students demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary art movements, architecture, and clothing for application in theatrical design.

 

Objectives

  1. Synthesize research and knowledge learned about global material cultures for its significance, potential application, and understanding of its relationship to the time/culture in which it was created.
  2. Facilitate and contribute to a discussion around a material culture different from their own or new to them.
  3. Review evidence and hypothesize how an object’s impact might be changed by re-contextualizing for use in a design.
  4. Synthesize research and knowledge learned about material cultures and apply that within a design process in order to devise a culturally competent historical world for the stage.

 

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