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Article: Modern matters.(V & A show)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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The big exhibition at the V & A heroically sets out to provide answers and attempts to look at the whole designed world between 1914 and 1939. The dates are chosen to focus on the heroic period, when the ideas were at their freshest and most radical, before they were diluted by big business and bureaucracy following the Second World War. Partly because of the great diversity of Modernism, and the energy and intelligence of the exhibition, curated by Christopher Wilk and evocatively designed by Eva Jiricna, it rapidly becomes clear that the phenomenon was not just produced in the twentieth century--in many ways, Modernism was the twentieth century, forming our lives, ...