this part on p.12 is interesting:

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The wikipedia article on "Mod" maintains that "the word modernist in this sense should not be confused with the wider use of the term modernism in the context of literature, art, design and architectur e..... "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_%28subculture%29

However, John Simons talks about the whole "post-war re-birth of Modernism" thus linking it specificall y to Modernism in general... He also would always mention certain architects such as Le Corbusier and designers such as Charles Eames, the Bauhaus, minimalist school of Modernism, and maybe writers such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald. ...

So, I doubt that there is no connection. ..


http://jsimons.website.orange.co.uk/



Check "The J.Simons story" and "conversatio ns with John Simons" and also Graham Lentz "The Influential Factor"

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