“Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980” Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world. Roughly three hundred works are thematically organized into five installations: Art Nouveau objects and posters
from 1890 to 1914, featuring stunning designs by Hector Guimard, Antoné Gaudi, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh; posters and graphics of the New Typography movement (1927–37) (on view through July 12); works from 1925 to 1940, including a giant railroad-car spring and a billboard for Ford Motors, that focus on the relationship of mind, body, and machine; a survey of the influential Good Design movement (1944–56), including iconic pieces by Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, and Hans Wegner; and works from the 1960s
and 1970s that merged the clean and elegant forms of modern design with new materials, colors, and forms, opening up new possibilities for more playful, expendable design.
[Image: Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D’Urbino, and Jonathan De Pas “Blow Inflatable Armchair” (1967) PVC plastic. Manufactured by Zanotta S.p.A., Italy. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the manufacturer.]
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Schedule
from December 23, 2009 to July 25, 2010
Artist(s)
Alvar Aalto, Egmont Arens, Theodore C. Brookhart, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Baldioli Eustasio & Figli, Peter Behrens, John Behringer, Mario Bellini, Max Bill, Manfred Bingler, Theodor Bogler, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, David Bush, Brian Lepine, Michael Zimmerman, A. M. Cassandre, Achille Castiglioni Jules Chéret, Joe Colombo, Daniel F. Cudzik, Christian Dell, Christopher Dresser, Ekkehard Fahr, Danny Ho Fong, David Gammon, Antoni Gaudí, Edgardo Miguel Gimenez, Allan Gittler, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Adolf Meyer, Hector Guimard, Richard Harlfinger, Josef Hoffmann, Jakob Jensen, Charles B. Kaufmann, Frederick Kiesler, A. Lawrence Kocher, Claire Wagner Kosterlitz, W. O. Langille, Ugo La Pietra, Johannes Larsen, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi, Paolo Lomazzi, Donato D'Urbino, Jonathan De Pas, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Owen F. Maclaren, Anthony Maglica, Louis Majorelle, Pio Manzù, Enzo Mari, Koloman Moser, Olivier Mourgue, Bruno Munari, Walter Von Nessen, Holger Nielsen, Isamu Noguchi, George Ohr, Joseph Maria Olbrich et al.