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Art deco style / Bevis Hiller, Stephen Escritt.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating N6512.5.A7 H55 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillier, Bevis, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art deco.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Decorative arts--History--20th century.
- Decorative arts.
- Physical Description:
- 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Phaidon Press, c1997.
- Summary:
- "Art Deco Style is the most comprehensive and wise-ranging study of Art Deco yet to be published. Truly international in scope and covering the whole spectrum of art, design and architecture, this richly illustrated book demonstrates the all-pervasiveness and essential coherence of Art Deco as a style, and reflects the fascination that it continues to exert as a living influence."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Art Deco revisited / Bevis Hillier
- Art Deco : a total style?
- Strictly modern : the 1925 Paris Exposition and the state of European decoration
- US Deco : modernity meets the American dream
- The politics of decoration : European Art Deco, 1925-39
- Diluted Deco: the British affair with the modernistic
- World-wide Deco : towards an international style
- Decomania : Revivalism, heritage, history and Post-modernism
- Biographies of artists and designers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 071482884X
- OCLC:
- 37914168
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