As English speaking and English writing people, we tend to hear more about the brief American Experience in this war and we are familiar with the British anti-war poetry and the legend of the well-born and the well-bred, the flower of English manhood dying on the...
Le Corbusier sought totality or at least compatibility between the modern open space, the design of the pavilion and the furnishings through his own designs. These designs were, like the modular spaces themselves were cubic. In the 1920s, modern furniture was being...
Not until 1968 were all the adjectives of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes swept away in favor of two signifying words “art deco” coined by the historian Bevis Hiller in his book Art Deco of the 20s and 30s. The fact that...
Years in the making, the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes finally opened during the Spring and Summer of 1925. Because the chief goal, in the minds of the host nation of France was to display the superiority of all things “French”...
While evoking the memory of Lenin, Stalin wiped out evidence of his accomplishments, suppressing or killing artists and architects along with other political dissidents. Only recently have there been cautious and reluctant gestures towards what remains of avant-garde...
Artists Liubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova entered into the new world for women in post-Revolutionary Russia as designers for a new way of life for the liberated woman. But beneath the jaunty new outfits and the vivid fabrics was the actual lived existence of real...
