Title & Author:

The 1920s : age of the metropolis / edited by Jean Clair.

Publication:

Montreal : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, ©1991.

Description:

638 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
"The exhibition The 1920s : age of the metropolis is being presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from June 20 to November 10, 1991"--Page 6
Issued also in French under title: Les Années 20 : l'âge des métropoles.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-634).
The Era. Red October, black October / Jean Clair -- Politics and society / Charles S. Maier -- Impossible order : strategies and shapes of metropolitan architecture / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Images of utopia / Constance Naubert-Riser -- The Themes. Cafés of the twenties / Günter Metken -- The shop window / Jean-Paul Bouillon -- Decorative arts from the twenties / Rosalind Pepall -- Twenties photography: mastering urban space / Christopher Phillips -- Advertising art / Alain Weill -- The American challenge to the European arts of advertising / Victoria De Grazia -- The Hubs. Berlin, the Dada-Metropolis / Hainne Begius -- The spectacle of the Weimar siedlungen / Richard Pommer -- George Grosz and the American Dream / Helen Adkins -- Metropolis or the dissolution of the city? The struggle for the 1920s against the big city / Fritz Neumeyer -- The metropolis as a comprehensive work of art : Fritz Schumacher's pland for Cologne, document of a forgotten modernity / Hartmut Frank -- Modes of escape : the representation of Paris in the twenties / Romy Golan -- -- Paris, the artists' city / Billy Klüver and Julie Martin -- Art versus industry and commerce : the art deco compromise / Nancy J. Troy -- Art patrons of the 1920s / Malcolm Gee -- English painting and the metropolis in the twenties / Jeremy Lewison -- The skyscraper says city / Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen -- Varieties of urban experience : American artists' views of New York City / Karen Lucic -- " A new Babel and a city divine" : The large urban projects for New York / Gwendolyn Wright.

ISBN:

2891921399
9782891921398

Subject:

Modernism (Art) Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) Expositions.
Art moderne 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Modern
Modernism (Art)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Clair, Jean, 1940-
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Age of the metropolis

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76285
Call No.: ID:92-B496
Status: Available