跟读练习: The origin of the '80s aesthetic - 通过视频学习英语口语

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If we were to make a mood board for each decade, it would probably look something like this, right?
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Even if we didn't live through the 50s, 60s, and the 70s, we can pretty much agree on the defining look of the time.
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This is my favorite, the 80s.
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And minus the questionable hairstyles, the 80s set the trend for bright colors, graphic patterns, and geometric shapes.
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Which made me wonder, who created the look of the 80s?
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Is it even possible to point to a specific person or a moment in time?
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Well, in this case, we can.
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I think you'd be hard -pressed to think of any other design phenomenon
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that could be located as specifically to a group of people.
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The Memphis group dominated the design world in the 80s.
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The collective, led by Italian architect Ettore Satzes, came together in 1981.
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They had a huge impact on the postmodern designs of the decade.
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Memphis is probably as influential a design group as there has ever been.
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And they did originate a lot of that visual vocabulary.
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So I give them a lot of credit for the look of the 80s for sure.
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Although the majority were Italians, the group had architects and designers from all around the world.
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Japan, France, Britain, Austria, America.
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And unlike the name, the group wasn't from Tennessee.
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They were actually based in Milan, Italy.
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The name Memphis came from a Bob Dylan song that was playing during a meeting.
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First thing to know about Memphis is
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that it comes out of a long tradition of radical design in Italy in the 1960s.
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Radical design was a movement formed by architects in reaction to the minimal and practical aesthetics of modernism.
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Modernism was put into some kind of box
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and we gave it a lot of rules which I think a lot of people felt trapped within these rules.
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Radical design allowed designers to express distortion and irony, moving far away from functionality of design.
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Satsas was a big proponent of the movement.
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According to The Guardian, he tried to stay away from the modernist way of designing, like a well -educated schoolboy.
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He didn't follow the rules, which made the Memphis group's work unpredictable.
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We wanted to be excited.
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We wanted to be anxious.
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We wanted to be thrilled.
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This is Peter Shire, one of two Americans who were part of the Memphis group.
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We were doing it mechanically because we didn't have the computers.
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They existed.
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We were seeing signs of it.
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And you look at that kind of overlay, look at Memphis, you know, pattern on pattern, with stuff flying out.
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In 1981, the group showed their work for the first time at the Milan Design Fair.
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The entire collection was named after luxury hotels.
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Carlton, the Bel Air chair that Peter Shire did, the Plaza Vanity that Michael Graves did, which is like a joke,
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right, about taking plastic laminates and putting it on cheap composition wood and then naming it after luxury hotels.
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It's all part of this sort of faux chic thing that they were interested in.
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The New York Times wrote that the show appalled some and amused others, but put everyone attending the fair in a state of high excitement.
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Sotsass and one of the other designers were on their way to the opening in a taxi
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and they thought that a terrorist bomb had gone off in downtown Milan.
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They realized gradually that the chaos and crowding was actually because of their own exhibition.
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They got out and walked and it was like mob scene.
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Their work spread quickly through design magazines that were popular at the time and soon enough you saw their influence everywhere.
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I always think it's really important that it happened virtually simultaneously with MTV, which also launched in 1981.
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And if you think about like the logo of MTV with all those colors and patterns and the kind of scratchy graphics,
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clearly relates very closely to some of the graphic design ideas that were coming out of Italy that were, you know, the context in which Memphis emerged.
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But despite the impact that the group had, their furniture never quite made it into people's homes.
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It was very, very unusual to decorate with Memphis at that time.
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There's only one single piece of furniture from Memphis that was ever mass -produced, and that's the first chair.
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I think about 3 ,000 of those are made.
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With a circular disc at the back and two black orbs to rest your arms, the design was unlike any other chair on the market in 1983.
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Which was a brilliant idea and a terrible chair.
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But the trouble is they always fell over backwards.
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Yeah, it's really funny.
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A few years later, Satsas left the group to build his own studio, and the Memphis group held their last show in 1987.
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Whenever people would say to me, what's the sort of ending of the postmodern period, I would say more or less it is around 1987,
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because there's a recession then that kind of takes some of the air out of the art market, and it's like a real turning point.
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The life of the Memphis group was short -lived — six years, to be exact.
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And even though their designs failed to serve a function in people's homes, they left a colorful mark in history and inspired many designers to come.
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Like this first Apple Watch, which was created in 1995.
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They were given out for free to anyone who bought the Mac system.
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Or this 2011 Dior Couture show, which was an ode to Memphis design.
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Karl Lagerfeld was among the few who collected their pieces and Sotheby's auction out sold David Bowie's Memphis collection last year, which also included Peter's work.
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The designs have a distinctive look that continues to come up time and time again.
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And that's how design works sometimes.
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It often spreads around the world without the designer's names attached.
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So even if you recognize this look as the look of the 80s, most people probably have never heard of Memphis at all.
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I should ask somebody.
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I should ask the man on the street.
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Most people would go, what?

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