Art Deco: 50 Works of Art You Should Know (50 Works of Art You Should Knw) (50's Series) - Hardcover
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This highly accessible overview of Art Deco, embraces nearly every artistic medium offering paintings and photography to furnishings and film through fifty superb examples of Art Deco style that reveal the period s richness and range.
This new addition to Prestel s successful 50s series focuses on Art Deco, an artistic movement that originated in France after World War I and spread throughout Europe and America. Presented chronologically in full-page illustrations accompanied by explanatory texts, these fifty iconic examples demonstrate the variety of ways Art Deco was expressed. Included here are a soup tureen designed by Jean Puiforcat; Edward Steichen s portrait of Fred Astaire; a brass-framed mirror by Austrian Franz Hagenauer; a still from the Busby Berkeley film, Footlight; and a self-portrait by the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. Other examples include jewellery, architecture, posters and items used in everyday life. Opening with an authoritative overview of the Art Deco movement and including biographies of each of the artists, this is a compact and affordable reference work and a beautifully designed book for every art lover s library.
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About the Author
Lynn Federle Orr is a Curator at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
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This highly accessible overview of Art Deco, embraces nearly every artistic medium-offering paintings and photography to furnishings and film-through fifty superb examples of Art Deco style that reveal the period's richness and range.
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