Art Deco 1910-1939
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Mar. 27-July 20, 2003.
PART I. INTRODUCTION -- The style and the age / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton -- The Great War, mass society and 'modernity' / Arthur Marwick -- PART II. SOURCES AND ICONOGRAPHY -- Egyptomania / Christopher Frayling -- Deco sculpture and archaism / Penelope Curtis -- Ancient Mexican sources of art deco / Oriana Baddeley -- Inspiration from the East / Anna Jackson -- Collecting and constructing Africa / Ghislaine Wood -- National traditions / Juliette Hibou -- Avant-garde sources / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton -- From Pattern to abstraction / Jonathan M. Woodham -- The exotic / Ghislaine Wood -- PART III. THE PARIS 1925 EXHIBITION -- The international exhibition / Charlotte Benton -- Paris 1925: consuming modernity / Tag Gronberg -- The artist-decorator / Stéphane Laurent -- PART IV. THE SPREAD OF DECO -- Germany, Austria and the Netherlands / Reino Liefkes -- Art deco in Central Europe / David Crowley -- 'Lovely neoclassical byways': art deco in Scandinavia / Jennifer Hawkins Opie -- European glass / Ghislaine Wood -- Italian architecture and design / Tim Benton -- Conscience and consumption: art deco in Britain / Gillian Naylor -- British art deco ceramics / Alun Graves -- Art deco architecture / Tim Benton -- Art deco fashion / Valerie Mendes -- Art deco jewellery / Clare Phillips -- Photography and the new vision / Mark Haworth-Booth -- Art deco graphic design and typography / Jeremy Aynsley -- Art deco bindings ; Art deco and the book jacket / Rowan Watson, Annemarie Riding -- PART V. THE DECO WORLD -- Travel, transport and art deco / Paul Atterbury -- Art deco and hollywood film / Ghislaine Wood -- 'The filter of American taste': design in the USA in the 1920s / Wendy Kaplan -- American metalwork between the wars / Jeannine Falino -- New materials and technologies / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- The search for an American design aesthetic: from art deco to streamlining / Nicolas P. Maffei -- Art deco in East Asia / Anna Jackson -- Indo-deco / Amin Jaffer -- Ambiguously modern: art deco in Latin America / Rafael Cardoso -- 'A growing enthusiasm for modernity': art deco in Australia / Christopher Menz -- Art deco in South Africa / Dipti Bhagat -- Decline and revival / Charlotte Benton, Time Benton.
The Victoria and Albert Museum's highly successful art nouveau exhibition is replaced in 2003 by an art deco exhibition. This volume focuses on one of the twentieth-century's most popular and distinctive styles.
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PUBLISHED
London : V & A Publications, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1851773886
1851778330
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Benton, Charlotte.
Benton, Tim, 1945-
Wood, Ghislaine.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
SUBJECTS
Victoria and Albert Museum -- Exhibitions.
Art deco -- Exhibitions.
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.