Title & Author:

Art deco 1910-1939 / edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, and Ghislaine Wood.

Publication:

London : V & A Publications, 2003.

Description:

464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Mar. 27-July 20, 2003.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Mar. 27-July 20, 2003; the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Sept. 20, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004; the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco in Spring of 2004 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Autumn 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-449) and indexes.
PART I. INTRODUCTION -- The style and the age / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton -- The Great War, mass society and 'modernity' / Arthur Marwick -- PART II. SOURCES AND ICONOGRAPHY -- Egyptomania / Christopher Frayling -- Deco sculpture and archaism / Penelope Curtis -- Ancient Mexican sources of art deco / Oriana Baddeley -- Inspiration from the East / Anna Jackson -- Collecting and constructing Africa / Ghislaine Wood -- National traditions / Juliette Hibou -- Avant-garde sources / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton -- From Pattern to abstraction / Jonathan M. Woodham -- The exotic / Ghislaine Wood -- PART III. THE PARIS 1925 EXHIBITION -- The international exhibition / Charlotte Benton -- Paris 1925: consuming modernity / Tag Gronberg -- The artist-decorator / Stéphane Laurent -- PART IV. THE SPREAD OF DECO -- Germany, Austria and the Netherlands / Reino Liefkes -- Art deco in Central Europe / David Crowley -- 'Lovely neoclassical byways': art deco in Scandinavia / Jennifer Hawkins Opie -- European glass / Ghislaine Wood -- Italian architecture and design / Tim Benton -- Conscience and consumption: art deco in Britain / Gillian Naylor -- British art deco ceramics / Alun Graves -- Art deco architecture / Tim Benton -- Art deco fashion / Valerie Mendes -- Art deco jewellery / Clare Phillips -- Photography and the new vision / Mark Haworth-Booth -- Art deco graphic design and typography / Jeremy Aynsley -- Art deco bindings ; Art deco and the book jacket / Rowan Watson, Annemarie Riding -- PART V. THE DECO WORLD -- Travel, transport and art deco / Paul Atterbury -- Art deco and hollywood film / Ghislaine Wood -- 'The filter of American taste': design in the USA in the 1920s / Wendy Kaplan -- American metalwork between the wars / Jeannine Falino -- New materials and technologies / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- The search for an American design aesthetic: from art deco to streamlining / Nicolas P. Maffei -- Art deco in East Asia / Anna Jackson -- Indo-deco / Amin Jaffer -- Ambiguously modern: art deco in Latin America / Rafael Cardoso -- 'A growing enthusiasm for modernity': art deco in Australia / Christopher Menz -- Art deco in South Africa / Dipti Bhagat -- Decline and revival / Charlotte Benton, Time Benton.

Summary:

The Victoria and Albert Museum's highly successful art nouveau exhibition is replaced in 2003 by an art deco exhibition. This volume focuses on one of the twentieth-century's most popular and distinctive styles.

ISBN:

1851773886
9781851773886
1851773878
9781851773879

Subject:

Design 2016
Art deco Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Design History 20th century.
Decoration and ornament Art deco Exhibitions.
Art déco Expositions.
Décoration et ornement Art déco Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Decoration and ornament Art deco
Art deco
Art, Modern
Design
Industriedesign
Architektur
Kunstnijverheid.
Konstutställningar Storbritannien London.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Benton, Charlotte.
Benton, Tim, 1945-
Wood, Ghislaine.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Royal Ontario Museum
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228515
Call No.: N6494.A7 A7 2003
Status: Available