A moderne Adventure - Exhibition Album (Bilingual)

The Centre Pompidou presents an exhibition on the UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes – Union of Modern Artists), one of the widest-reaching movements in the history of 20th century art. Bringing together architects, painters, sculptors, furniture designers, photographers, textile and jewellery designers, bookbinders, graphic artists and poster artists, this key movementin European modernism – a French-style «Bauhaus»– helped to make Paris a world capital of the avant-garde.

The exhibition provides an overview of the entire modern movement in France, from the early 20th century, to the late 1950s, illustrating the links that were uniting creators in all disciplines around powerful lines of force, even before the UAM was founded. These creators included architects, painters, sculptors,
furniture designers, photographers, fabric and jewellery designers, bookbinders, graphic artists, and poster artists.