Design in the Czech Lands 1900-2000, Institutions of Modern Design

摘要

Design in the Czech Lands 1900-2000, Institutions of Modern Design is a monumental publication. Produced by a collective of scholars in 2016, the book has since come to be considered the so-called 'bible of Czech design', and this review confirms that well-deserved epithet. The 1900-2000 time frame covers the history of design in the Czech lands and later Czechoslovakia from the early modern movement to the hetergeneous tendencies in design after 1989, a year that was a turning point not only for Czechoslovakia, but also for Europe's Eastern Bloc as a whole and that marked the beginning of the new democratic Czechoslovak Republic after the November 17th Velvet Revolution.