Modernism 1914-1939
Designing a New World
ed. by Christopher Wilk

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Editor(s)

Christopher Wilk

Publication, year

London : V&A Publications, 2006

Scope

447 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.

ISBN

9781851774777

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The designed world in which we live was largely created by Modernism, which is best identified as a loose collection of ideas that developed simultaneously in different countries rather than as a single movement. Behind the look and forms of Modernism lay a set of radical ideas and conditions. This book and exhibition explores how the movement developed, what principles defined it, and some of the themes that characterized it, including Utopia, the machine and mass production, nature and the healthy body, and national identities.

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Person as subject

Raphaël Zarka

Keywords

painting , art history , installation , sculpture , drawing , modernism , utopia , 20th cent.

Location

Cabinet 9 - 1: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical references and Index.