Ranting Cassandras
Jonathan Meades: Refugee Artists, 26 June 2025
The Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British 20th Century
by Owen Hatherley.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £35, March,978 0 241 37820 5 Show More
by Owen Hatherley.
Allen Lane, 596 pp., £35, March,
“... to work on their Bauhaus-ish project at Dartington, not altogether enthusiastically described by Owen Hatherley as ‘that exceptionally British establishment thing, a progressive private school’. It was rather more than that. Gropius was amazed by the display of wealth and opulence: ‘A vast park … trees I have never seen … sixty ... ”