Cold War Modern at the Victoria and Albert Museum – free guided tour
Dear Art and Architecture Club,
While we wait for this year’s Art and Architecture Club budget to be finalised (hence the delay in subsidised events), one of our members, Marie Julie, has very kindly organised for us a free guided tour of COLD WAR MODERN at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Sunday, 23 November, to leave Goodenough College at 2 pm. Please see details below and at http://artnarchclub.wordpress.com. To book, please contact Marie Julie at mariejulie2000@yahoo.com , by Wednesday 12th if possible. (Please do not reply to the Art and Architecture Club gmail address since Marie Julie is being kind enough to handle the bookings). Above and below: two films that you will see excerpts of in the exhibition: the seven screen Glimpses of the USA (1959) by Charles and Ray Eames, and La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard. Plus Eero Aarnio’s Ball/Globe Chair (1966).
all best
Eu Jin
COLD WAR MODERN: DESIGN 1945-1970
A free guided tour through the V&A exhibition
When:Sunday, 23 November 2008, 2pm leave Goodenough College London House Reception. Tour starts at 3pm.
(book by Wednesday, 12 November 2008)
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington
What:”Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 is the first exhibition to explore how contemporary design, architecture, film and popular culture were shaped by the Cold War, an era of high tension an exceptional creativity.The period after the Second World War was one of anxiety but also one of great optimism and unprecedented technological development. The exhibition examines how Modernist art and design developed against the backdrop of the battle between communism and capitalism, the advances of the space race, and the international competition to be modern.The exhibition brings together over 300 iconic exhibits, from a Sputnik and a space suit to films by Stanley Kubrick, paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Gerhard Richter, fashion by Paco Rabanne, designs by Chales and Ray Eames and Dieter Rams, architecture by Le Corbusier, Richard Buckminster Fuller and Archigam, and vehicles including a Messerschmidt micro-car.”
Find out more about Cold War Modern by visiting http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern/
If interested, please contact until Wednesday, 12 November: Marie Julie,
mariejulie2000@yahoo.com
