Art Deco

by Benton, Charlotte; Benton, Tim; Wood, Ghislaine

• ISBN13: 9780821228340
• ISBN10: 082122834X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-17
• Publisher: Bulfinch

Summary

This lavishly illustrated book brings together nearly 40 essays from leading experts in the field to discuss the phenomenon that was Art Deco.

Author Biography

Charlotte Benton is a design and architecture historian. Her works include A Different World? Emigre Architects in Britain 1926-58.
Tim Benton is Professor of Art History at the Open University and has curated a number of exhibitions and his work has been most recently included in Le Corbusier in Paris.
Ghislaine Wood is co-curator of the Art Deco 1910-1939 exhibition. She was also co-curator of the wildly successful V&A Art Nouveau exhibition that toured internationally, and a contributor to the catalogue.

Table of Contents

Sponsor's Foreword	p. 6
List of Contributors	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 9
Introduction	p. 10
The Style and the Age	p. 12
The Great War, Mass Society and 'Modernity'	p. 28
Sources and Iconography	p. 38
Egyptomania	p. 40
Deco Sculpture and Archaism	p. 50
Ancient Mexican Sources of Art Deco	p. 56
Inspiration from the East	p. 66
Collecting and Constructing Africa	p. 78
National Traditions	p. 90
Avant-Garde Sources	p. 100
From Pattern to Abstraction	p. 112
The Exotic	p. 124
The Paris 1925 Exhibition	p. 138
The International Exhibition	p. 140
Paris 1925: Consuming Modernity	p. 156
The Artist-Decorator	p. 164
The Spread of Deco	p. 172
Germany, Austria and the Netherlands	p. 174
Art Deco in Central Europe	p. 190
'Lovely Neoclassical Byways': Art Deco in Scandinavia	p. 202
European Glass	p. 214
Italian Architecture and Design	p. 218
Conscience and Consumption: Art Deco in Britain	p. 230
British Art Deco Ceramics	p. 240
Art Deco Architecture	p. 244
Art Deco Fashion	p. 260
Art Deco Jewellery	p. 272
Photography and the New Vision	p. 284
Art Deco Graphic Design and Typography	p. 296
Art Deco Bindings	p. 304
Art Deco and the Book Jacket	p. 308
The Deco World	p. 312
Travel, Transport and Art Deco	p. 314
Art Deco and Hollywood Film	p. 324
'The Filter of American Taste': Design in the USA in the 1920s	p. 334
American Metalwork between the Wars	p. 344
New Materials and Technologies	p. 348
The Search for an American Design Aesthetic: From Art Deco to Streamlining	p. 360
Art Deco in East Asia	p. 370
Indo-Deco	p. 382
Ambiguously Modern: Art Deco in Latin America	p. 396
'A Growing Enthusiasm for Modernity': Art Deco in Australia	p. 406
Art Deco in South Africa	p. 418
Decline and Revival	p. 426
Notes	p. 430
Bibliography	p. 443
Object List	p. 450
Name Index	p. 454
Subject Index	p. 459
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