
the exhibition is curated by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt; © V&A images
It’s forty years since the love-it-or-hate-it, style-driven phenomenon that was postmodernism first emerged in architectural practice, soon manifesting itself in design, art, fashion and music. The V&A’s major new show, ‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990’, examines its vibrant, playful forms and, sometimes contradictory, meaning. (by Simon Cowell)

'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990' - exhibition view; © V&A images

'Super Lamp' by Martine Bedin; © V&A images

'Supremely Black' by Haim Steinbach (1985), photo courtesy of V&A

'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990' - exhibition view; © V&A images

'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990' - exhibition view; © V&A images

'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990' - exhibition view; © V&A images
‘So PoMo! – ‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990′ at London’s V&A Museum’ on Architonic
to Architonic’s special theme on postmodernism