Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture

Rating:
Summary: Making sense of contemporary culture.
Review: This book provides a clearly understandable explanation of the complex ideas that have impacted on 20th century visual culture. I found the chapters on postmodernity and their relationship to modernity particularly interesting and useful. The author takes complex ideas and by putting them into a century long context unravels the contradictions in modernist culture very lucidly.

Whether it is the art of William Morris, the Chinese Cultural Revolution or contemporary Australian multiculutralism that pushes your buttons, this book will ring the bell. (It will also get you through those semester assignments on the meaning of modernism in contemporary Britain!)

Rating:
Summary: Making sense of contemporary culture.
Review: This book provides a clearly understandable explanation of the complex ideas that have impacted on 20th century visual culture. I found the chapters on postmodernity and their relationship to modernity particularly interesting and useful. The author takes complex ideas and by putting them into a century long context unravels the contradictions in modernist culture very lucidly.

Whether it is the art of William Morris, the Chinese Cultural Revolution or contemporary Australian multiculutralism that pushes your buttons, this book will ring the bell. (It will also get you through those semester assignments on the meaning of modernism in contemporary Britain!)