Thursday, September 22, 2011

POSTMODERN exhibition at the V+A

review on Front Row 22.9.2011


Post-Modernism

Known as "pomo" also "nono"

Some visitors will arrive feeling hostile towards subject

Exhibition a difficult remit

Chairs you can not sit in

Building without doors

2,000 year old Ming vase with Coca Cola on it

post-modernism the death of modernism … !?

not about cynicism

could be seen as expansive and radically optimistic

good fun, not a great deal to say for itself

opposite of killing a butterfly with a hammer

lot left out of exhibition …

covers of music albums

what was the fatal blow to pomo … its’ not dead!!

More diffused now

Paper architecture; "Marginally functional" paper chairs!

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