This is a draft of an essay which appears a shorter version in a book accompanying “L’Âge atomique” exhibition curated … More
Tag: Cold War
Culture Bunkers
This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book, … More
The Aura of the Avant-garde
Agnieszka Pindera at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is leading a research project into Échange entre artistes 1931–1982, Pologne-USA, a … More
Super America: Polish Artists and Consumer Lifestyle
This is a link to a video of a lecture given in Poznan in spring 2023 at a excellent symposium … More
The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War
This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More
Interview with Herito magazine
In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.
Zamecznik’s Silent Star (occasional notes on posters)
In many science fiction films of the Cold War period the cosmos is represented as an extra-terrestrial space in which … More
Bunker, Konjic, B-H, photographed in spring 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Manhattan’s Doubles
This article was written a few years ago when preparing the Cold War Modern exhibition at the V&A. It first … More
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