The Guardian's arts coverage is great.
Modern Classics: The Idea That Won't Go Away (Main Link)
From the website: The world was in disarray, shattered by the first world war and heading into a second. Out of this chaos came the modernists - a group of utopian designers with thrilling new visions of what the future could hold. But was anyone ready for this brave new world?
Paradise Now (Robert Hughes)
From the website: But gradually the meaning of "modernism" settled down to its present form, based on utopian fancies, standardisation, industrial materials like chrome and plate glass, abstraction and a vehement ambition to make a new world, not just a new art.
Lost in Translation (About Albers and Moholy-Nagy)
Albers did a wondeful book about color.
From the website: The room full of his photographs is a journey to the lost world revolution. A bather floats in a swimming pool and legs lie on a diving board at 45-degree angles in which nature copies supremacist art; the shadows cars make on a street shot from above and the spiralling telephone wires in photomontage-drawings create infectious motion. It is all so optimistic about the modern world that will eradicate misery with science.
