Art 3255y - Links to Web Readings

You are encouraged to read the following web readings as a way of enhancing your understanding of our discussions each week, or pursuing further information on topics that interest you.

Links will be added each week as the course progresses.

• Artistic Meditations on "Chairs"
• Know Your Meme
• Three Stages of Culture (required)
• Caves of Lascaux
• Venus of Willendorf
• Discobolus
• Nefertiti
• Wikipedia - Leonardo da Vinci
• Top ten advertising campaigns of the 20th century
• The Great Exhibition of 1851
• Chicago World's Fair 1893
• Paris Exposition of 1900
• Musee d'Orsay - Universal Exhibitions (required)
• Paris 1900 in Photos

• The Bow Valley Ranche, Fish Creek Park, Calgary
• A Quick Intro to the Ideas of Sigmund Freud
• Met Museum - Arts & Crafts (required)
• National Gallery - Art Nouveau
• Met Museum - Art Nouveau (required)
• Antonio Gaudi - Casa Mila
• Antonio Gaudi - Casa Batllo
• Cubism - Reference and historical background
• The Villa Savoye (required)
• Rietveld's Schroder House
• Televisions at the 1939 world's Fair
• Important industrial designers
• Cubism Summary - Metropolitan Museum of Art (required)
• Design 1925-1950 - Metropolitan Museum of Art (required)

• Advertising Age
• The Rhetoric of the Image (article by linguist Roland Barthes - see Panzani pasta ad in slide file)
• Summary of the article by Barthes, above (required)

Below are links to some of the most successful advertising companies and campaigns today... click around their sites and get a sense of what each of them does, and how they differ from the others

• An international giant - BBDO
• Another giant - Ogilvy
• Leo Burnett - a.k.a. the "Critter" firm
• TBWA
• Crispin, Porter + Bogusky
• Lambesis
• A Canadian success story - Taxi
• Calgary's own - Critical Mass
• Interesting case study - the Shell logo
• Venture