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Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the
text.
1. Christopher Dresser, who was born in Glasgow in1834, and who died in
1904, is the first industrial designer.
2. Dresser is associated solely with the products of heavy industry.
3. Where ornament was concerned, Dresser opposed the then-flourishing
‘naturalistic’ school.
4. Dresser published his
first book on design, the Art of Decorative design, in
1864.
5. Dresser’s own surviving designs cover a wide range of
materials, styles
and ornaments.
6. Dresser’s most original work was in glass.
7. Dresser was first to analyse the relationship between form and function in a
rational way.
2. Discuss the following.
1. What was Christopher Dresser’s contribution to the development of design?
2. Talk about the creative work of Christopher Dresser.
Text 3. THE REVOLUTION IN THE FINE ART
Pre-reading Tasks
1. Practise the pronunciation of the words from the text. When in doubt use
a dictionary.
Symbolism, materialism, neo-primitivism, futurists, Dadaists, synthetic
cubism, dynamism, inexorable, esoteric, barbarous, detritus, juxtaposition,
impetus, aesthetic, endow, collage, frisson.
2. Practise the pronunciation of the following proper names:
Jean Moreas
Ardengo Soffici
Marcel Duchamp
Paul Gauguin
Fernand Leger
Raymond Loewy
Gerald Murphy
Stuart Davis
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