MODERNISM: V&A EXHIBITION

Visit: Sunday 16 July, 8.15am

This major V&A exhibition will be the first in-depth look at the movement which revolutionised the world around us and the way we live. On show will be sculpture, painting, photography, furniture, fashion, prints and architecture. Key modernist figures who will be featured include artists Piet Mondrian and Fernand Leger, architects Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, furniture designers Marcel Breuer and Alvar Aalto, fashion designer Sonia Delaunay and photographer Man Ray.

Looking at the years from 1914 to 1939, the exhibition will show how Modernist ideas evolved into a mass movement with widespread influence in peoples’ lives and how Modernism found its distinctive style – abstract, linear, geometric – which still dominates design today.

This is a joint visit with Bristol Magpies, and we are delighted that Architectural Historian Andy Foyle will be accompanying us and giving a short talk on the coach. In 2004 Andy wrote the Pevsner City Guide to Bristol and he is now revising the Buildings of England for North Somerset and Bristol due to be published in about 2008.

To book, download the booking form (as a Word document) and return to Rosemary Silvester, the event organiser. No bookings will be taken by the Architecture Centre.

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