Shock of the Old: an exhibition on the celebrated Victorian designer Christopher Dresser has just moved from the Cooper-Hewitt to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Martin Levy assesses its presentation of a man often claimed as a proto-modernist.(Critical Essay)

Apollo | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

Since: the publication in 1936 of Nikolaus Pevsner's Pioneers of the Modern Movement, Dr Christopher Dresser's reputation has, to a large extent, rested on his credentials as a proto-modernist. In the exhibition which has just arrived at the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Cooper Hewitt (where it was called 'Shock of the Old'), Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) is presented as a far more complex and multifaceted designer.

Artists and architects have, for centuries, created designs for furniture, metalwork, glass, textiles and ceramics, mostly for wealthy patrons. ...

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