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conventional
maker
reject
once
a year
bring about
productive
justly
give rise to
b) words from the text antonyms
revival
worsen
modification
extinction
reconciliation
unrelated
accept
separation
value
uniformity
benefit
disregard
relevant
reject
4. Put in the right forms of adjectives in brackets.
1. If the Modern Movement in art prepared the way for new attitudes towards
design in …………. (
broad) sense, in a much …………. (
narrow) sense
the change
was due to a group of artists, architects, craftsmen, manufactur-
ers, bureaucrats and politicians in Germany.
2. The single individual with ……….. (
great) responsibility for the Werk-
bund idea was a civil servant in the
Prussian Ministry of Trade, Hermann
Muthesius.
3. One of ………… (
virulent) of rows occurred in July 1914, on the eve of
the Werkbund’s Cologne exhibition.
4. Industrialization had taken place much ……. (
late) than it did in England.
5. ……………. (
seminal) Werkbund designs were most of all to the increas-
ing use of electricity in the home.
6. On a far …… (
small) scale, some of Behrens’s designs
for household ob-
jects would set the teeth of design historians on edge were they not by him.
Reading Comprehension and Discussion Tasks
1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the
text.
1. The Deutscher Werkbund was a sort of design pressure group that held an-
nual meetings in different German cities and formed regional Werrkbund
associationas throughout Germany.
2. Its declared aim was ‘to ennoble industrial labour through the co-operation
of art, industry and handicraft, by means of education, propaganda and
united action on relevant questions’.
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3. The single individual with the greatest responsibility for the Werkbund
idea was Hermann Muthesius.
4.
In creating the Werkbund, Muthesius had no associates.
5. The Belgian architect Henri van de Velde accepted the notion of ‘art for
art’s sake’ and denied the necessity of reconciliation with the machine.
6. Friedlich Naumann had always been an enthusiast for the visual arts, and,
more specifically, an advocate of the need to find new
forms to suit the
modern age.
7. Peter Behrens was the first house-designer, responsible for the visual im-
pact made by a large industrial corporation.
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