The technologies of war, repression and later liberation, purge of ornamentation, and the struggle to achieve something never before accomplished, all had a major effect on the postwar period of design (Lynton, 21). One would even give credit to the two world wars for the development of modernism and the overall modern design that derives from it. War changes everything, that is a given. Its destruction forces rebuilding; its technology provides new materials and methods that all come together to form the new style, almost like a new start, the war is over and nothing that was before wants to be seen again.
The rapid technological development that affected furniture production during the 1930's became even more rapid in the post world war II period of the 40's and 50's. The war years affected the furniture industry drastically in Europe, while little affect was felt in the United States. Materials in Europe were in short supply, and what was available was saved for defense, not furniture (Belgrad, 33). In 1942 the British Government issued an ultimatum that the only furniture to be manufactured in Britain was utility. The point of this was researching furniture design both for wartime use and for the furniture. The research consisted of temporary furniture design to cope with the destruction that would result from bombing and long-term furniture planning for peacetime when the supplies of plywood, cellulose, and steel would once again be available (Lynton, 34). The result was a line of plain, solid furniture constructed mainly from native oak. The presentation of utility furniture on a widespread public scale through to 1951 did much to break down any remaining resistance to modernism coming through to furniture design (Lynton, 36).
With new furniture forms becoming more readily acceptable, modern design started to develop more in other areas then Europe. The development of inexpensive and reliable plywoods and laminated boards was one of the leading technical advances of the decade before World War II.
These efforts can be best understood by examining post-modernism. ... To understand post-modernism we must first understand modernism. ... Post-modernism can be viewed as an expansion of modernism. ... Post-modernism is all encompassing. Post-modernism does not allow for only one definition for anything. ...
Swiss typography carried out the desires of the pre-war pioneers for objectivity in visual communication. ... Weingart rebelled against the minimalism of Modernism and initiated a body of work with his students that pushed early modernisms Constructivist experiments to their logical extremes. ... Two years after he left Basel, Weingart was offered a teaching assistant post for the International Advanced program for Graphic Design and so returned. ... But the Avant-garde was there through-out Modernisms reign. ... As Postmodernism did to Modernism. ...
Collecting War Debts a. ... Traditionalism and Modernism Clash 1. ... During the post war Red Scare, fear that communists and socialists from eastern Europe were traveling to the U.S. with their revolutionary doctrines added emotional edge to the debate. 2. ... Modernism in Art and Literature 1. ... Post War Literature Flowers a. ...
Modernism in Art and Architecture The movement from modernism to postmodernism and the development of architectural form is clearly an underlying principle even in the late 20th century structures created by architects like Libeskind. ... This can be best understood through the assessment of economic and social changes that went along with the industrial development and post-World War II expansion of capitalism (Best and Kellner, 2000). ... "The culture of post-modernism is `dynamic and decentred'...as apparent opposites overlap. ... By comparison, the ideals of modern...
Both men wrote in a post-war era. Eliot wrote The Wasteland following World War I, although he denies that the poem was about the war, there is evidence of the overall feeling during this post-war period. ... Eliot wrote during a period of modernism. ... Each man's view of the world in a post-war society perfectly captures the feeling of the time. Eliot's work is titled The Wasteland; he believes all of the post-war society is just that, a wasteland. ...
From a prominent magazine that solely embraced on modernism, Margaret Anderson accused Duncan for being a "pseudo-artist." ... The post war generation brought immigrants into the United States. ... Duncan's expressive body was a surprise to the post war generation. The war brought more freedom to people. ...
This new style from these lost artists had Hemmingway as a figurehead, one of the literary minds who brought in the style of writing known today as Modernism. ... They distrusted the sickening behavior of the rich at home, and the world itself was torn apart by war. ... After the war, the "lost generation" lost their traditional values. ... Ernest Hemmingway unlike many of his contemporaries, was actually there during the wars and strife. ... He portrayed real emotion through honesty of the post war "lost generation", giving realism to a detached society. ...