This text summarises and contextualises the ideas that formed visual arts practices this century. Art, design and architecture are located in their social and p
Ten new and important essays on design cover Modernism's fortunes in Germany, Italy, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Belgium and the USA; they range in subject matter f
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers
At its root, modernism is that fundamental. It is a question of having something to represent that is of the moment. In the most radical interpretation, moderni
Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the