Art deco style / Bevis Hillier and Stephen Escritt.
By: Hillier, Bevis.
Contributor(s): Escritt, Stephen.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1997Description: 239 p. : ill(some col.) ; 30cm + hbk.ISBN: 071482884X (m) (hbk).Subject(s): Art deco | Art deco (Architecture) | Art, Modern -- 20th century | Decorative arts -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.04012Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 709.04012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00092197 | ||
Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 709.04012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Reference | 00052868 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Characterized by geometric shapes, stylized natural forms and the use of luxuriuos materials Art Deco originated in France and spread quickly all over the globe during the 1930s. Interest in the style was revived in the 1960s, partly as a result of the work of Bevis Hillier who recalls his triumphs and mistakes in writing the first book on the subject and co-organizing the Minneapolis exhibition in 1971.
Bibliography: (pages 234-235) and index.
Introduction: 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.