{"id":20,"date":"2006-07-15T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-07-15T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T11:01:58","slug":"the-enduring-appeal-of-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"The enduring appeal of modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, together with a very good Slovak friend, I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\">Victoria &#038; Albert Museum<\/a> in central London to see the exhibition &#8220;Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939&#8221;. It is an excellent exhibition and it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/modernism\">an informative website<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhat is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modernism\">modernism<\/a>? The exhibition describes it as &#8220;not a style but a loose collection of ideas&#8221; sharing certain underlying principles: &#8220;a rejection of history and applied ornament; a preference for abstraction; and a belief that design and technology could transform society&#8221;.<br \/>\nGermany and Russia were power houses for Modernism but my Slovak friend was happy to note that Czechoslovakia &#8211; as it then was &#8211;  made significant contributions and indeed the most memorable exhibit at the V&#038;A is a 1936 Tatra car in pristine condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, together with a very good Slovak friend, I visited the Victoria &#038; Albert Museum in central London to see the exhibition &#8220;Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939&#8221;. It is an excellent exhibition and it has an informative website. What is modernism? The exhibition describes it as &#8220;not a style but a loose collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}