ART DECO
Written by Norbert Wolf
Published by Prestel Verlag
in 2016
ISBN: 9783791382418
ART DECO
Written by Norbert Wolf.
Stock no. 1830414
1st thus.
2016.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and early '30s, and the artistic movements that paralleled its popularity. Large volume. Matt pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. 286 pages including index and appendix. ISBN: 9783791382418. Boards lightly bumped & worn at corners, scuffing to rear board. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- MODERNISM BEAUTIFIED?
- Icons of Art Deco
- Style or Fashion
- The Cult of the Decorative
- A New Style or a Fashionable Dressing of the New?
- THE 1920's AND 1930's: POLITICS AND CULTURE
- THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND
- War, Revolution, Inflation
- The Advance of the Dictators
- A New World Power: the USA
- CASTINE LIGHT ON EVERYDAY CULTURE
- The Fascination of Technology
- The Media
- Lifestyle
- ART DECO: THE BEGINNING
- PARIS 1925: AN EXHIBITION CREATES A FUROR
- PRECURSORS
- The "austere" Jugendstil
- Historicism and Exoticism
- Cubism and Futurism
- Les Ballets Russes
- PARALLEL ARTISTIC WORLDS
- ABSTRACTION
- Constructivism, Suprematism, Bauhaus
- FIGURATION
- The Return to Order
- Valori plastici and Novecento
- New Objectivity - Magic Realism - Verism
- American Precisionism
- ART DECO: STAGES OF SUCCESS
- FRANCE AND STYLE 25
- Architecture and Interior Design
- Fashion and Jewelry
- Sculpture between the Fine and the Applied Arts
- THE "AMERICANIZATION OF ART DECO"
- The Machine Aesthetic, Functionalism, and Art Deco
- Art Deco in Public Spaces
- Streamline
- ART DECO WORLDWIDE
- Europe
- From South American to East Asia
- ART DECO SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
- CASSANDRE
- DODO
- TAMARA DE LEMPICKA
- RUDOLF BELLING
- BORDER CROSSERS
- CATEGORIES OF ART DECO
- DESIGN VERSUS STYLE
- ART DECO ON THE BORDER
- THE AFTERLIFE
- APPENDIX