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Article: EXHIBITIONS: Rare commodities.(Surrealism exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum)
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- March 8, 2007
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The influence of Surrealism continues to outlive that of other 20th century movements, perhaps because its imagery has been embraced so unselfconsciously by the very elements it set out to criticise, says John Stones, previewing a new exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum
The utopian aspirations of Modernism still function as design's foundational myth, even if it is the gospel of a church at which few pray any more.
But if you consider those elements that are still in play, Surrealism, the other primary creative trend of 20th century high culture, has been even more influential. Desire, surprise, dream, disruption, unconscious ...