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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Used-Very Good. Originally published to accompany a landmark 1986 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, this now-classic book offers a comprehensive look at American art, architecture, photography, film, and industrial and graphic design in the years between the two world wars. Art Deco, Moderne, Streamlined Modern, International Style, Constructivism, and other styles of the machine age are examined in detailed text and more than 400 arresting images. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 1986, First Edition. 376 pp. Hardcover, large 4to., red cloth. Illustrated throughout. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. Tight, clean and unmarked. Like New. Original brochure laid-in.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 376 pages with more than 400 illustrations 55 in full color. Reprint Edition. Foreword by Robert T. Buck, Director. Originally Published for the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum f Art, Brooklyn NY October 17, 1986-February 16, 1987. Selected Bibliography and Index.
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.