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Art Deco Chicago : designing modern America / edited by Robert Bruegmann.
Fine Arts Library N6494.A7 A6245 2018
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating N6494.A7 A6234 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.
- Buildings.
- Design.
- History.
- Art deco (Architecture).
- Art deco.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Art deco--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.
- Art deco (Architecture)--Illinois--Chicago--Exhibitions.
- Design--Illinois--Chicago--History--Exhibitions.
- Local Subjects:
- Art deco.
- Art deco (Architecture).
- Buildings.
- Design.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press.
- Other Title:
- Modern by design, Chicago streamlines America.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Art Deco Society, [2018]
- Summary:
- "An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century. Frank Lloyd Wright s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it"--provided by the distributor.
- Contents:
- Capital of mainstream Modernism / Robert Bruegmann
- Chicago designs for America / Jonathan Mekinda
- Chicago encounters Art Deco / Teri J. Edelstein
- A century of progress / Lisa D. Schrenk
- Decomania, the paths to an enthusiasm / Neil Harris.
- Donors
- Preface / Joseph Loundy
- Foreword / Gary Johnson
- Introduction / Robert Bruegmann
- Capital of mainstream modernism / Robert Bruegmann
- Chicago encounters art deco / Teri J. Edelstein
- Decomania, the paths to an enthusiasm / Neil Harris
- Key 101 designs.
- Notes:
- "This volume serves as the companion publication to the exhibition Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America organized by the Chicago History Museum, October 27, 2018--December 2, 2019."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-370) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 0300229933
- 9780300229936
- OCLC:
- 1028905982
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