Architexturez. wrote: > For a real exhibition of modernism, skip the V&A and go to Manchester > > The human misery of crumbling estates is the malign legacy of these > aesthetic authoritarians and their machine fetish >
Modernism, Modern Again By Paul Levy Special to The Wall Street Journal In a 1924 essay, "Character in Fiction," Virginia Woolf famously wrote: "In or about December 1910, human nature changed." She was writing about Roger Fry's ground-breaking London exhibition, "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," but in her own mind she was declaring the date of the beginning of the modernist movement. It is a large subject -- and a weighty one. The extraordinary catalog for the Victoria & Albert Museum's spring blockbuster show, "Modernism: Designing a New ... cont'd.... http://online.wsj.com/google_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB114437812543919720.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_wsj _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
