Dan Friedman is internationally known as an artist, teacher, graphic designer, and furniture designer. His innovative and arresting work is in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Seibu in Tokyo. This book is Friedman's meditation on behalf of "radical modernism", a term he coins to avoid the constraints of orthodox modernism and the jargon and anarchy of postmodernism. A key figure in the current debate over design, Friedman provides inspiration and encouragement to those who are still open to risk, experimentation and optimism. To illustrate his ideas, he draws on both media images and a wide array of his own work-including his experimental furniture, sculpture, posters, logos, installations, typographic lessons, and his apartment, which has been called a living museum. Friedman argues that design is in crisis, searching for a new sense of balance and vision in a period of historic transformation. Throughout the book he emphasizes the responsibility of designers to see their work as an important creative aspect of a larger cultural context. He also discusses the impact of digital technology on visual art education; the relationship between theory and practice; the ways in which appropriation, simulation, reuse, and eclecticism challenge our notions of originality, beauty, and authenticity; and the basis for reappraising modernism so that it gives new substance to ritual, fantasy, diversity, spirituality, humanism, and ecology. Essays by experts from the cutting edge of art, design, and architecture add insights to both the philosophy behind Friedman's work and the critical response to it.
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Iconoclastic, Cleveland-born artist and designer Friedman creates wildly imaginative furniture, colorful futuristic room interiors, totem-like painted screens, wittily subversive posters, attention-grabbing company logos and kinetic book designs. His metaphysical assemblages of found objects incorporate archetypal symbols, while his hovering sculptures combine motorized elements, lights and images of Hindu gods. Friedman's 1984 installation, Postnuclearism, conjures an apocalyptic process radically altering our priorities. The iconic Three Mile Island Lamp is a chilling reminder of environmental disaster. In these stimulating, galvanically illustrated essays and manifestos, Friedman, senior critic at the Yale University School of Art, castigates modern design as overspecialized and enslaved to the values of commerce. He calls for a broadening of modernism to embrace cultural diversity, spirituality and ecological awareness.
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This is an extremely theory oriented book packed full of questions about why it is that artist create. There must be the understanding that Friedman is not trying to overpower us into thinking his way. However, It is a conversation that we are having with him as though he is still here and we are friends. The insight to question the basics of what it is to Design, Create, to Expose as and artist, philosopher, social commentator or the art educator. Friedman is able to place himself outside of the typical, and really ask us what we are to do to communicate on the scale of design. This Book is the first step into understanding a great mind and thinker. This is a must read for those who like to understand creation and communication.
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GREETINGS, My name is Robert Terlizzi, I am a graphic design student at New Paltz College in NY. I was assigned a project to research a designer and create a poster featuring a short bio of the designer and samples of his work. I chose the designer Wolgang Weingart and I have been having problems finding information on him and samples of his work. I would greatly appreciate if you could help me out in any way, maybe by sending me samples of his posters or any other. My email address is::terliz36@matrix.newpaltz.edu ...Thank you so much for your time... Ill be waiting for your reply Sincerely, Robert
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