British Design 1948-2012

“British Design 1948-2012. Innovation in the modern age” is an exhibition, sponsored by Ernest & Young agency, which celebrates “the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the present day.”

I walked in intending to read and understand everything, but I was not enjoying it at all, so I decided to stand back and simply look at what, in my opinion, was interesting.

It is not necessary an analytical approach to fall into the atmosphere of the rooms, but is necessary to let yourself be touched by what surrounds you.

I would define it as a retrospective of the British culture in modernism and post-modernism, conceptual and contemporary time. I truly admire the way in witch the curators, Christopher Breward and Ghislaine Wood, expressed the passages between the ages: the music, the costumes, the magazines, the transports, the Church, the city, the arts, everything is detailed and in chronological order to give the sensation of living sixty years in three hours.

If you want to experience it I wish you all to go and have a look, it will be on till the 12 august 2012!

Reference



Higgot, Andrew, Making it New: the discourses of architecture and modernism in Britain ( London: Routledge, 2010)


Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9169611/British-Design-1948-2012-Innovation-in-the-Modern-Age-at-the-VandA.html> [Accessed 13 February 2012]


Available at: <http://www.designweek.co.uk/home/blog/british-design-from-1948-innovation-in-the-modern-age-at-the-va/3034302.article> [Accessed 13 February 2012]


Available at: <http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/night-and-day/7803828/the-vanda-shows-why-we-should-be-proud-of-british-design.thtml> [Accessed 13 February 2012]


Available at: <http://www.londondesignguide.com/2012/03/exhibition-british-design-1948-2012-at-va-museum/> [Accessed 13 February 2012]


Available at: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/23/best-british-design?newsfeed=true> [Accessed 13 February 2012]


[Innovation in the Modern Age] n.d. [image online] Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9169611/British-Design-1948-2012-Innovation-in-the-Modern-Age-at-the-VandA.html> [Accessed 13 February 2012]