Titre et auteur:

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.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 20-Nov. 10, 1991.
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.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

2891921399
9782891921398

Sujet:

Modernism (Art) Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernisme (Art) Expositions.
Art moderne 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Modern
Modernism (Art)
History, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Classification/genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Vedettes secondaires:

Clair, Jean, 1940-
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Age of the metropolis

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 76285
Cote: ID:92-B496
Statut: Disponible