Damn I keep not knowing or missing these or I don't know what -- I'll mark it for this weekend or next.
If anyone would like a bit of company etc.
The first question is the end point. Why 1970? I suppose the curators could not put loads from the 70s w/out a loss of coherence for the whole but surely the cold war was still er, quite cold back then?
This is really the period that I was hoping the Modernism thing we all saw at the V&A last year would get into.
Anyway, I am going on to this the weekend of 8/9 November when my friend from Edinburgh is down in London. He really likes 50s/60s design. Join us then, if you like, or I'm happy to participate in a separate outing of sukratlings if one is arranged.
I think 1970 is the right place to stop (and the title of the show may be a bit misleading). The cold war may still have been going in the 70s but I think there was a big cultural change then that affected design (at least in the Anglo-Saxon west). All the optimism of the 50s and 60s evaporated, the space race contracted, and more parochial concerns took hold: strikes, 3-day week, oil shortages, power cuts, etc.
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Date: 2008-10-06 07:34 pm (UTC)If anyone would like a bit of company etc.
The first question is the end point. Why 1970? I suppose the curators could not put loads from the 70s w/out a loss of coherence for the whole but surely the cold war was still er, quite cold back then?
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Date: 2008-10-07 11:10 am (UTC)This is really the period that I was hoping the Modernism thing we all saw at the V&A last year would get into.
Anyway, I am going on to this the weekend of 8/9 November when my friend from Edinburgh is down in London. He really likes 50s/60s design. Join us then, if you like, or I'm happy to participate in a separate outing of sukratlings if one is arranged.
I think 1970 is the right place to stop (and the title of the show may be a bit misleading). The cold war may still have been going in the 70s but I think there was a big cultural change then that affected design (at least in the Anglo-Saxon west). All the optimism of the 50s and 60s evaporated, the space race contracted, and more parochial concerns took hold: strikes, 3-day week, oil shortages, power cuts, etc.
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Date: 2008-10-08 07:21 pm (UTC)I (or you) can plug this on sukrat nearer the time.
I wonder what the architecture/design of a depressed period would look like?