Sonia Delaunay : art into fashion / introduction by Elizabeth Moran ; foreword by Diana Vreeland ; text by Jacques Damase ; translated from the French by Richard Howard..
Contributor(s): Morano, Elizabeth
| Damase, Jacques.
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BookPublisher: New York : George Braziller, 1986Description: 104 p. : ill(some col.) ; 28 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0807611662.Subject(s): Delaunay, Sonia | Costume design -- France -- 20th century | Art, Abstract -- France | Fashion designersDDC classification: 746.92092 DEL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.92092 DEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00073111 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Like many champions of Modernism, Sonia Delauney believed that art should be used to redecorate modern life, and that design should be truly artistic. By applying the bright colors of the peasant costumes from her native Russia to the elegant silhouettes that were currently in vogue in Paris, she translated theory into practice and produced a stunning series of clothes for the Jazz Age. Like the contemporary Orphist paintings created by her husband Robert, Sonia Delauney's designs are characterized by their vibrant colors and sharply patterned geometric collages. They were worn by starlets Gloria Swanson and Gaby; her imaginative theater costumes were commissioned by another great advocate of Modernism, Diaghilev, for the Bullet Russes. Indeed, Sonia Delauney's clothing, as exalted in the poetry of Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire, epitomized the spirit of the new age.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a painter and textile designer.Elizabeth Morano is an Associate Editor at the New York Review of Books , and also works in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Diana Vreeland , a leading authority in the international fashion and design world, is Special Consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.