Hot Stuff From the Cold War ; Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 Victoria & Albert Museum, London Until January 11, 2009

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For 45 years from 1945, the great blocs of West and East stared at each other over a nuclear abyss - the Cold War. Politically, it seemed like an absolute stalemate, in which nothing would ever change.

Political situations have their cultural manifestations. In a mesmerising exhibition, the Victoria & Albert Museum has pulled together the ways in which, from 1945 to 1970, the Soviets and the Nato countries presented themselves through film, furniture, art and a hundred other forms of arts, manufacture and craft.

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Hot Stuff From the Cold War ; Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 Victoria & Albert Museum, London Until January 11, 2009

Often, in this exhibition, an unexpected parallel arises. When the Space Race began to hot up, an American movie of psychological fantasy in the oute...

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