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A MODERN WORLD
AMERICAN DESIGN FROM THE YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, 1920-1950 |
| By: |
John Stuart Gordon, Sandy Isenstadt, Keely Orgeman |
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Hardback |
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£57.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300153015 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300153019 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 November, 2011 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. This title provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. It features a mix of high-style decorative arts, industrial design, and everyday objects. |
| Synopsis: |
Americans living in the first decades of the twentieth century felt they inhabited a modern age. A spirit of excitement and experimentation transformed the world around them, in particular the consumer goods that filled their homes and offices. A Modern World draws upon the renowned collection of American decorative arts at the Yale University Art Gallery to explore the appearance and dissemination of modern design in the United States. This catalogue organizes roughly 300 examples of silver, glass, industrial design, furniture, medals, jewelry, and printed textiles into thematic groups that chart the aesthetic and social trends that defined American design from the Jazz Age to the Space Age. The authors consider modernism broadly-from handmade luxury goods to mass-produced housewares-establishing a context for the objects within larger international developments in architecture, avant-garde art, and scientific innovation. New research and compelling juxtapositions offer an expanded understanding of the era, and designer biographies and corporate chronologies help make this catalogue a valuable resource. |
| Illustrations: |
329 color + 19 b-w illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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