Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

#11

Post by garmaine » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 4:20 AM UTC

Modernist design is too tied to fascism to be nostalgic for me.

Re: Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

#12

Post by disillusioned » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 6:48 AM UTC

Hmm, I wish they had some sample articles from inside these issues.

Re: Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

#13

Post by hellofunk » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 7:10 AM UTC

These are very very beautiful, real framable art, I must say I really long for that kind of a time.

Re: Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

#14

Post by lyjackal » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 12:47 PM UTC

garmaine wrote: post #11

Modernist design is too tied to fascism to be nostalgic for me.

Nazi aesthetics were not really modernist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_the_Third_Reich

A lot of hearkening back to "better more pure times"

Re: Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (2016)

#15

Post by garmaine » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 4:46 PM UTC

lyjackal wrote: post #14

garmaine wrote: post #11

Modernist design is too tied to fascism to be nostalgic for me.

Nazi aesthetics were not really modernist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_the_Third_Reich A lot of hearkening back to "better more pure times"

I didn’t say Nazi. Modernism is an art movement that came into being alongside Italian fascism: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/263882