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Article: The modern world.
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- Creative Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Modernist designers were originally derided as the "Set It Crooked School". But as a major new exhibition will reveal, their ideas have come to dominate visual communications. By David Crowley
Later this month, the V&A will open its doors to Modernism: Designing a New World, the first major exploration of the art, architecture and design of the Modern Movement of the 1920s and 1930s in a British museum. Alongside well-known icons of high Modernism such as Le Corbusier's architectural designs and Marcel Breuer's tubular steel chairs, the curators have searched out overlooked graphic works.
Many of the most impressive exhibits come from Eastern ...