Encyclopedia of Art Deco: A Visual Guide to the Influential Design Movement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840138238 ISBN 13: 9781840138238

Publisher: Grange Books, 2005

Synopsis

This book is the definitive guide to the short lived but immensely influential movement in design and decoration that reached its peak between the two world wars.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

"Art deco," Duncan (American Art Deco, etc.) explains, "is not always easy to define." The various authors of the chapters on architecture, sculpture, furniture and interior decoration, painting, bookbinding, glass, metalwork, textiles, jewelry, etc., fail to come up with even a working definition; they use terms and hypotheses that vary greatly, leaving the reader with the notion that anything that happened in the field between World Wars I and II falls under the rubric "art deco." The arbitrarily delineated sections consist mainly of lists of the practitioners, with a description of works by the most important ones (Rene Lalique, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Erte). Often, instead of providing a needed illustration, the book refers the reader to another source where, presumably, the illustration in question can be found. A biographical listing of art deco artists and designers printed distractingly at the bottom of each page does not include several of the artists covered in the text, among them furniture designer Paul Frankl and illustrator Baron Hans Henning-Voigt.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

This survey of art deco, the geometrically stylized decorative art of the 1920s and 1930s that became the subject of renewed interest from the 1960s on, was written by a team of experts under the editorship of an art deco specialist at Christie's in New York City. Individual chapters cover art deco architecture, sculpture, glass, furniture, painting, jewelry, ceramics, etc; throughout, short paragraphs offer biographical information on the individual artists and artisans of the art deco movement. Many plates, about a fourth in color, supply good visual reference. Recommended for large public libraries and for art history collections where needed.Hara L. Seltzer, NYPL
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grange Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1840138238
• ISBN 13: 9781840138238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Alastair Duncan