We took another step towards getting married yesterday after receiving the paperwork we need from the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh. It always amazes me that Edinburgh is so close to Glasgow and yet so foreign, going there always feels like a holiday despite the fact that it takes less time to get there than it used to take me to get from Colliers Wood to Shoreditch. Last time we were here, we went to Edinburgh Zoo. This time, we went to the Dean Gallery, enticed by Foto, their exhbition of Modernist photography.
The exhibition covers the rise of the modernist aesthetic in central and eastern Europe. Everyone it seems was enthralled by the possibilities of the new aesthetic and it spread like wildfire. Photomontages depicting man and machine were common, the stark geometric lines of Bauhaus became the dominant mode, and anti-war protests by the likes of John Heartfield pinched viewers into political consciousness.
It was all very inspiring stuff. Indeed, on getting home, I made the following postcard as a homage:
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