My Modern Movement Best Robert
My Modern Movement Best Robert For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. Robert Best, one of Britain's leading…
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My Modern Movement Best Robert
For those of advanced tastes, the Modern Movement was a welcome corrective to the debased aesthetics of the commercial world. Robert Best, one of Britain's leading industrialists in this period, shared the goal of better mass education but was troubled by Modernism's promoters, for reasons that they found hard to understand. The products of light industry were as untutored in the 1920s and 30s as massed housing and both took scant interest in the idealist thinking that sought to harness architecture and design to social progress.
Best felt that the campaign to popularise Functionalist design took propaganda into territory that had uncomfortable political overtones. If the few knew better than the many, and had an obligation to elevate them whether they liked it or not, where did this leave the democratic principles that our liberal society prided itself on? In this extraordinary memoir,