Ocean liners
glamour, speed and style
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Author
Contributions
- Peabody Essex Museum - Contributor
- Victoria and Albert Museum - Contributor
Publication
2017 - Peabody Essex Museum, England
Language
English
Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveoceanlinersglamo0000unse
- ISBN-10185177906X
- ISBN-101851779248
- ISBN-139781851779062
- ISBN-139781851779246
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number988006181
- Better World Books9781851779062
- Open LibraryOL27236484M
Classifications
- DDC387.2/432
- LCCVM381 .O24 2017
- LCCVM382
Description
Ocean Liners became floating cities for those lucky enough to travel in an era before commercial flight was widely affordable. This book explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel, from grand Victorian barges to luxurious Art Deco floating palaces and sleek Modernist post-war liners. The shift in passenger from those driven to immigrate, often by necessity, to the wealthy leisure traveller led to rapid transformations in promotion, architecture, interior design and even the engineering of the ships themselves, as companies and countries completed to provide the most luxurious, safest and fastest liners possible. Dan Finamore is Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Ghislaine Wood is Deputy Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.
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