The invention of chic : Thérèse Bonney and Paris Moderne / Lisa Schlansker Kolosek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kolosek, Lisa Schlansker.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Paris (France)--Pictorial works.

Paris (France).

Bonney, Thérèse, 1894-1978.

Bonney, Thérèse.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson ; [Washington, D.C.] : In association with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2002.

Summary:

The American photojournalist Therese Bonney was one of many brilliant young foreigners drawn to the bright lights of Paris in the 1920s. There she founded the Bonney Service, the first American illustrated press service in Europe. Its speciality -- her passion -- was modern French design and architecture. This was an exciting time: Art Deco, still at its height, was increasingly being challenged by the more austere aesthetics of high modernism. Bonney photographed architecture, interiors, salon installations, and international expositions. She was dazzlingly well-connected, and her captions read like a roll-call of Deco and Moderne: Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Jean Dunand, Pierre Chareau, Le Corbusier ... She also recorded the changing face of Paris as the city embraced the modernist aesthetic, turning her lens on shop fronts and window displays, advertising and graphic arts, theaters, restaurants, nightclubs, and bars. Based on Bonney's amazing and little-known archive held at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, this book comprehensively documents the modern movement in Paris between the wars. Therese Bonney is usually remembered for her work as a war photographer; in The Invention of Chic, Lisa Schlansker Kolosek reveals an earlier episode in the life of this extraordinary woman, an influential player at a key moment in the history of twentieth-century design.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Paris between the wars 22

Chapter 2 An american in paris 66

Chapter 3 Parisian design 98

Chapter 4 Selling modern in the united states 148.

Notes:

"With 186 illustrations."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0500510962

OCLC:

50302294