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Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting, silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture, graphics, posters, books, jewellery, and architecture.

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Booklist Review

Art deco expert Duncan-- he is also the author of American Art Deco [BKL D 15 86]-- offers a concise guide to the movement as part of the World of Art series of paperback art history studies. While the book concentrates on the art deco style in the decorative and applied arts, it also investigates the movement's influence on architecture, theatrical design, painting, and sculpture. The emphasis is on European designers and artists, but American examples of the style are also given their place as part of art deco's international currency. Nicely illustrated with a large number of black-and-white and color photographs. Bibliography; index. -- John Brosnahan

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alastair Duncan was for fourteen years associated with Christie's, New York, latterly as a Consultant. After joining the auction house in 1977, he organized and catalogued a great number of sales devoted to Art Nouveau and Art Deco and nineteenth-century decorative arts. He has acted as guest curator for exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and is now an independent consultant specializing in the decocrative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of many books, including Art Deco Furniture, Art Nouveau Furniture, American Art Deco, and Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany.