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Style over substance
Art Deco borrowed from Bauhaus and Soviet Constructivism but ignored their core social commitment, writes CHRISTINE LINDEY
(L to R) Summer 1928, Thomas Martine Ronaldson, Cleethorpes, design for Railway Poster, Septimus Scott, c1930
When the ravages of Alzheimer’s leave an elderly woman marooned in painful memories of October 1950, her grandchild comes up with a creative strategy.
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RON JACOBS is persuaded by the parallel drawn between Charles Manson and Donald Trump
In this comparison of Britain pre- and post Thatcher, WILL POMORE applauds the analysis, but distrusts the solutions offered
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Exhibition I Art Deco by the Sea,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
AS WE face winter’s gloom, how lovely to dwell on the sunlit seaside pleasures of warmer days.
The Laing Art Gallery’s exhibition, Art Deco by the Sea, conveys these through drawings, paintings, photographs, fashion, plates, furniture, ceramics and textiles from the 1920s and 1930s.
Originating in France, this sleek new style signified fun, sophistication, modernity and a rejection of fusty, claustrophobic Victorian and Edwardian times.
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