Edgar Brandt : art deco ironwork / Joan Kahr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahr, Joan, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brandt, Edgar, 1880-1960.

Brandt, Edgar.

Artist-blacksmiths--France--Biography.

Artist-blacksmiths.

Ironwork--France--History--20th century.

Ironwork.

Decoration and ornament--Art deco.

Decoration and ornament.

Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 : Paris, France).

Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, c2010.

Contents:

Foreword / Francois Brandt

Foreword / Philippe Garner

Nineteenth-Century Ironwork: Emile Robert Relights the Fire

Childhood and Schooling

Life at Vierzon: Edgar Brandt's Training

The Seeds of a Philosophy

1900: A Career Begins

To See and Be Seen: The Salon Exhibitions

The Weld That Held: The Oxyacetylene Torch

Iron of a Different Kind

101 Boulevard Murat

The War Memorials

Progress Comes with Peace: Forging Art in the Early 1920s

Japonisme and Other Motifs

Two Sides of the Drawing Board: 1923-1924

The Exposition of 1925: Background

Beaucoup Brandt: Everywhere at the Fair

Brandt's Stand: A Treasury of Fer Forge

Works in Bronze: Vessels and Serpents

La Galerie Edgar Brandt

American Exposure

The Canadian Connection

Back in Paris: 1926

The Denouement

Change Is in the Air

The Close of the Decade

Mexican mastery

Into the Future

Borrowing Brandt

The Legacy.

Notes:

1st ed. published under title: Edgar Brandt : master of art deco ironwork.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Longhi Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780764336669

0764336665

OCLC:

642837805