The 1851 World's Fair and the artist-designer (Thonet, Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement); From Manet to Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas); Postimpressionism (Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat); Art Nouveau (Guimard, Van De Velde, Horta, Gaudi); Modernism (Munch, Loos, Klimt, Olbrich); Industrial design (Ford, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Deutscher Werkbund); Expressionism (Matisse, Kirchner); Cubism and Picasso; Futurism (Boccioni, Balla, Sant'Elia, Depero); Abstractionism (Kandisky, Klee); Russian avant-garde: Suprematism and Constructivism (Malevič, Lissitsky, Tatlin); Dadaism (Duchamp, Man Ray); Neoplasticism (Mondrian, Rietveld); Metaphysics (De Chirico); Surrealism and organic sculpture (Magritte, Miro, Dali; Arp, Moore, Brancusi); The Streamlining; The Bauhaus; The Modern Movement in architecture and design (Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Wright); The Informal (Fautrier, Dubuffet, Burri, Fontana); Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko); Minimalism (Flavin, LeWitt, Andre); Pop, New Dada, Graffitism (Warhol, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Basquiat, Haring); Conceptual Art (Beuys, Kosuth, Paolini); Land Art (Christo, Heizer, Smithson); Italian Design in the Postmodern Era (Cini Boeri, Mendini, Sottsass, Dalisi; Gufram, Zanotta);The art of the year 2000 and the urgencies of the present (Pistoletto, Abramović, Kapoor, Kentridge, Neshat, Eliasson, Weiwei); the design of the third millennium: new forms, new materials, new processes (Hadid, Lovegrove, Arad, Starck, Rashid, Oxman, Libertiny, Al Awar)
A module will explore the great Italian design of the post World War II period: Vespa, Fiat, Olivetti, Kartell; Ponti, Munari, Castiglioni, Magistretti, Mari

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