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Art deco style / Bevis Hillier and Stephen Escritt.

By: Hillier, Bevis, 1940-.
Contributor(s): Escritt, Stephen.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: 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: 709.04012
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music 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 Not for loan 00052868
Total holds: 0

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.

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Library Journal Review

If one had to select a single title from the recent spate of books discussing the Art Deco style, it should be this crisply written, magnificently illustrated volume. Indeed, Hillier is no stranger to Art Deco scholarship (Art Deco of the 20s and 30s, 1985), and his lively discussion of the turbulent era of the Twenties and Thirties quickly sweeps one back in time to a style that became easily identifiable and was adopted to one degree or another by all of the mechanical and fine arts. The illustrations, mostly in color, are beautifully reproduced. Art students in particular will benefit from this attention to detail. The volume concludes with a notes section, brief biographies of notable artists and designers, and a useful bibliography. Highly recommended for all audiences.‘P. Steven Thomas, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt. Pleasant (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.