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Author : Tamara de Lempicka
Release : 2004
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Art Deco Icon by : Tamara de Lempicka
Download or read book Art Deco Icon written by Tamara de Lempicka. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogus bij een tentoonstelling van werk - vooral uit de periode 1922-1935 - van de wat in vergetelheid geraakte art deco kunstenares (1898-1980).
Author : Tamara de Lempicka
Release : 2004
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Tamara de Lempicka by : Tamara de Lempicka
Download or read book Tamara de Lempicka written by Tamara de Lempicka. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamara de Lempicka's distinctive painting style and subject matter perfectly matched her glamorous lifestyle and glittering social circle. With their trademark juxtaposition of rounded forms and angular architectural lines and shapes, her highly mannered portraits reflected the sophisticated urbanity of her sitters. Capturing the nascent modernist spirit, her bold technique and palette rapidly won her acclaim as the quintessential Art Deco artist." "Published to accompany the first exhibition in Britain dedicated to this extraordinary woman's oeuvre, this catalogue concentrates on her most productive and recognised period, between 1922 and 1935. These heady years saw her immortalise the atmosphere of wealth and decadence for which Paris had become famous between the wars." "Newly written texts investigate the background to her life and her art, and numerous colour illustrations of her key works confirm her reputation as one of the most iconic painters of her generation.
Author : Don Vlack
Release : 1974
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Art Deco Architecture in New York, 1920-1940 by : Don Vlack
Download or read book Art Deco Architecture in New York, 1920-1940 written by Don Vlack. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Greene
Release : 2014-12-29
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Art Deco Mailboxes: An Illustrated Design History by : Karen Greene
Download or read book Art Deco Mailboxes: An Illustrated Design History written by Karen Greene. This book was released on 2014-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great gift book for lovers of unsung urban decorative art and unique architectural details. Mailboxes and their chutes were once as essential to the operation of any major hotel, office, civic, or residential building as the front door. In time they developed a decorative role, in a range of styles and materials, and as American art deco architecture flourished in the 1920s and 1930s they became focal points in landmark buildings and public spaces: the GE Building, Grand Central Terminal, the Woolworth Building, 29 Broadway, the St. Regis Hotel, York & Sawyer’s Salmon Tower, the Waldorf Astoria, and many more. While many mailboxes have been removed, forgotten, disused, or painted over (and occasionally repurposed), others are still in use, are polished daily, and hold a place of pride in lobbies throughout the country. A full-color photographic survey of beautiful early mailboxes, highlighting those of the grand art deco period, together with a brief history of the innovative mailbox-and-chute system patented in 1883 by James Cutler of Rochester, New York, Art Deco Mailboxes features dozens of the best examples of this beloved, dynamic design’s realization in the mailboxes of New York City as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Author : Lucy Fischer
Release : 2003-07-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 579/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Designing Women by : Lucy Fischer
Download or read book Designing Women written by Lucy Fischer. This book was released on 2003-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of a newly industrialized world. From department store window dressings to the illustrations in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalogs to the glamorous pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazar, Lucy Fischer documents the ubiquity of Art Deco in mainstream consumerism and its connection to the emergence of the "New Woman" in American society. Fischer argues that Art Deco functioned as a trademark for popular notions of femininity during a time when women were widely considered to be the primary consumers in the average household, and as the tactics of advertisers as well as the content of new magazines such as Good Housekeeping and the Woman's Home Companion increasingly catered to female buyers. While reflecting the growing prestige of the modern woman, Art Deco-inspired consumerism helped shape the image of femininity that would dominate the American imagination for decades to come. In films of the middle and late 1920s, the Art Deco aesthetic was at its most radical. Female stars such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and Myrna Loy donned sumptuous Art Deco fashions, while the directors Cecil B. DeMille, Busby Berkeley, Jacques Feyder, and Fritz Lang created cinematic worlds that were veritable Deco extravaganzas. But the style soon fell into decline, and Fischer examines the attendant taming of the female role throughout the 1930s as a growing conservatism challenged the feminist advances of an earlier generation. Progressively muted in films, the Art Deco woman—once an object of intense desire—gradually regressed toward demeaning caricatures and pantomimes of unbridled sexuality. Exploring the vision of American womanhood as it was portrayed in a large body of films and a variety of genres, from the fashionable musicals of Josephine Baker, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to the fantastic settings of Metropolis, The Wizard of Oz, and Lost Horizon, Fischer reveals America's long standing fascination with Art Deco, the movement's iconic influence on cinematic expression, and how its familiar style left an indelible mark on American culture.
