Peter Campbell looks at the Hayward Gallery Thirties show
Peter Campbell, 6 December 1979
“... enterprise on the largest scale, put together by a committee chaired by William Feaver. Modernist white walls mask the emphatic textures and shapes of the interior of the shell, so that Fifties Brutalism encloses Thirties Modern. But what is displayed in the cases and on the walls is an attempt at total recall. A huge range of objects is thrown together ... ”