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The Magic of Plywood
Thursday, November 3, 2011
12:30 p.m.
Form really does follow function with this most mundane of materials, one that inspired modern architects and designers to transform inexpensive industrial timber into wonders of good design in the 20th century. Beginning with a brief history of the medium and process, this talk—inspired by MoMA's exhibition Plywood: Material, Process, Form—highlights classic examples by Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Sori Yanagi, among others. We will see how designers turned this laminated, low-cost product into a metaphor for modern design's utopian premise: that good design should be affordable to all.
Marianne Eggler (PhD, ABD, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York) is an art historian and a specialist in the history of modern architecture and design, particularly in Weimar-era Germany. A gallery lecturer at MoMA since 1998, she teaches art history and design history courses at The City University of New York, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Parsons The New School for Design.
MoMA Talks: Brown Bag Lunch Lectures (81)
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The Concrete and Neo-Concrete Movements in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela
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Photographs by JoAnn Verburg
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Q&A
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From Pavel Tchelitchew's Hide-and-Seek to Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
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The Creative Dialogue of the Leaders of the Russian Avant-Garde
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Geometry and the Birth of Modern Painting
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European Geometric Tendencies and the Impact of the Cold War
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Think with the Senses/Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense
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Art Spiegelman, Rachel Whiteread, Christian Boltanski, and Others Remember the Holocaust
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The Drawings
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The Work of Anselm Kiefer
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A Tribute to Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
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The Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyo
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The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928–42
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Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
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documenta 12: Exhibiting Education
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Commerce and Pop, 1950–68
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Design and the Elastic Mind
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The History of Public Art at Rockefeller Center
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Painting and Film. A Preview
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A User's Guide to the Architecture of the Beijing Olympics
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Olafur Eliasson
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Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
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Kirchner and the Berlin Street
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Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
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The Contemporary Artist's Book
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Art and Dementia
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East and West in the World of Alighiero e Boetti
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Homage to New York: Jean Tinguely's Destructive Art
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Building an Audience for Modern Art
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Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937
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The High Rise and Decline of Low-Income Housing in America
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Collecting and Museums as Art
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Joan Miró's Influence on Graphic Design
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León Ferrari and Mira Schendel
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Sol LeWitt
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Measuring Your Own Grave
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Chagall’s Nomadic Modernism
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Viennese Architecture and Design Between the Two World Wars
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Photography's Image of the American West
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Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in New York
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Gabriel Orozco
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Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
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Monet’s Water Lilies
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Jackson Pollock, John Cage and William Burroughs
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Five Themes
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Seven Projects by Peter and Alison Smithson
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The Playground Movement in Chicago
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Radical Invention 1913–1917
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Luigi Ontani’s 1970s Painted Photographs
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New Architectures of Social Engagement
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Tim Burton
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The Modern Century
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New Activist Practices in Environmental Art
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The Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
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Design and the Modern Kitchen
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The Universal Exposition of 1889 and the Art of Edvard Munch, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Rousseau
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Abstract Expressionist New York
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On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
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Loie Fuller and the Convergence of Dance and Art
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Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects
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Psychedelic Light Shows and the New Left Politics
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The Magic of Plywood
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Ossip Zadkine and Naum Gabo in Rotterdam
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Performing the Past: Italian Art and Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s
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Labarlabolab! Performing Translation in the Museum
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Duck Duck Goose
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Are Games Art?
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Wholeschooling, with Paul Bartow and J. Morgan Puett in conversation
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Architecture, Popular Culture, and Communication
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Variations on a Theme Park
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Swarming and Self-Organization, with Brian Conley
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Whole Schooling
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Lived, Constructed, and Imagined in the work of On Kawara, Alighiero e Boetti, and Yoko Ono
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The Art of Sahrawi Cooking
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Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, James Turrell, and Others
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Interrogating the Changing Artwork
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Artistic Research Science Fair
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The Art of Agnes Denes, Mona Hatoum, and Richard Long
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On Meat and Mortality
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Space, Time, and Architecture
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