This study offers a comprehensive look at American art, architecture, photography, film, and industrial and graphic design in the years between the two world wars.
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This study offers a comprehensive look at American art, architecture, photography, film, and industrial and graphic design in the years between the two world wars.
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Near Fine. 9780810914216 4to, 376 pp, near fine in dust jacket. Over 400 illustrations, including 35 color plates. Essential book on machine age art and design.
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VG/VG. Red cloth, blue & illus. dust jacket, 375 pp. 55 color, over 350 bw repros. A lavishly illustrated, important catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition held in Brooklyn Oct. 17, 1986 to Feb. 16, 1987, followed by three other locations. "Captures the mood, the energy, of an age in transition--the years between the two world wars. Although there were vast differences between the decades encompassed--prosperity in the 1920s, depression in the 30s--the machine was the principal motivating force in each. America, on the verge of a new art, and ultimately a new culture, had come into her own at last. From her great achievements in technology and industry would arise not simply a modern style, but an entirely new way of life." (dj) The majority of the illustrated essays are by Richard Guy Wilson, with contributions by Dianne H. Pilgrim, Dickran Trashjian. Covers mainly architecture and sculpture; a marvelous assemblage. Contents as follows: America and the machine age; Machine aesthetics; Selling the machine age; The machine in the landscape; Transportation machine design; Architecture in the machine age / Richard Guy Wilson. Engineering a new art / Dickran Tashjian--Design for the machine / Dianne H. Pilgrim--The machine age and beyond / Richard Guy Wilson, Dianne H. Pilgrim, Dickran Tashjian.
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VG-(copy may have foxing spots on book edges, interior clean and tight) Illustrated glossy wraps. 376 pp. 55 color, over 350 bw repros. A lavishly illustrated, important catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition held in Brooklyn Oct. 17, 1986 to Feb. 16, 1987, followed by three other locations. "Captures the mood, the energy, of an age in transition--the years between the two world wars. Although there were vast differences between the decades encompassed--prosperity in the 1920s, depression in the 30s--the machine was the principal motivating force in each. America, on the verge of a new art, and ultimately a new culture, had come into her own at last. From her great achievements in technology and industry would arise not simply a modern style, but an entirely new way of life." (hardcover dj) The majority of the illustrated essays are by Richard Guy Wilson, with contributions by Dianne H. Pilgrim, Dickran Trashjian. Covers mainly architecture and sculpture; a marvelous assemblage.
I bought this book because I am a fan of all things styled in the modes of Art Deco and Modernism. This book does not disappoint. It is richly illustrated and supplemented with informative narrative teaching the reader about the effects of the Machine Age on style and culture in the first decades of the 20th Century. Similarly, I am a scholar of the works of sculptor Lee Lawrie who created the Atlas at Rockefeller Center, as well as more than a dozen other bas-relief sculptures at the complex. I found the book by Googling Lawrie. Lawrie was one of the premier Art Deco sculptors in years between the Wars. (Lawrie has a number of works you may view by Googling Bisonwerks and visiting my site.) The work covers a broad collection of subjects: paintings, sculpture and the fine arts, industrial design on consumer products, architecture, furniture. It is literally peppered with illustrations, with a surprisingly large number of color plates. It has tons of photos and text on skyscrapers, bridges, Hoover Dam and other examples of public works infrastructure that reflect the Machine Age. I own several pieces of Revereware pots and pans, but never realized that their design traces back to the Machine Age. The book includes nearly all of the designers of the age, like Bel Geddes, and Buckminster Fuller, with examples of their work, showing both models and actual autos, like the Dymaxion Car, Streamlined airplanes and locomotives. If you dig all thing Deco or Machine age, I can't recommend a better resource. The book is extremely fun to just sit and leaf through to look at the pictures. It runs about 350 pages, the majority of which include illustrations. It is a wonderful book.
