Modernist Exhibition Design
モダニズム展示デザイン / 1920s–1940s / Style / Exhibition Design
The modernist movement that designed the exhibition as printed matter you walk through. Lissitzky's dynamic installations and Bayer's extended field of vision invented display as an information space that edits the visitor's path and gaze.
Choreographed circulation / Tilted panels / Photography at giant scale / Compositions wrapping the field of view
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- El Lissitzky's Pressa, 1928 / Herbert Bayer's field-of-vision diagrams / Lilly Reich's material displays