The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
Inspired in part by pre-war European efforts to democratize design through industrial production, [the Good Design] movement energetically promoted modern design to the American consumer through museum exhibitions, trade shows, and advertising.
Geometric abstraction, through the Cubist process of purifying art of the vestiges of visual reality, focused on the inherent two-dimensional features of painting.
Editorial Assistant Nadja Hansen spoke with Sabine Rewald, curator of Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, to ask about her inspiration for the exhibition and the process of creating such a beautiful exhibition and catalogue.
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