Really liked Modernism, Inc., about industrial design artist Eliot Noyes. He must have shown up in a Philip Johnson biography I read last year, but whatever I encountered there I'd forgotten, so it was all new. A story I always respond to: a period of great influence and achievement, the moment passes--there's a 1970 conference where Noyes' world is challenged and found egregiously wanting (unlike many in a similar situation, he gracefully steps aside)--and then 50 years later, a documentary pops up and you see him for the great artist he was. Claudia Weill unexpectedly turns up in connection to that conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Ts8r6KItU
(Xpost - Weird follow-up story of 10 programmers resigning from Hot Docs.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link