Essential Art Deco
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Word Count
24,000 words, Guess
Page Count
96 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9825590M
- ISBN-139780821228333
- ISBN-100821228331
- OCLC Control Number52462295
- OCLC Control Numberessentialartdeco00wood
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002113765
- LibraryThing2556994
- Goodreads645061
Classifications
- LCCNK789.5.A7 W66 2003
Description
"Art Deco, the most glamorous style of the twentieth century, swept across the globe in the 1920s and 1930s, altering the skylines of cities from Shanghai to Rio, and adding an exotic vibrant edge to everything from cinema and fashion to ocean liners and automobiles." "This illustrated book explores the extraordinary visual language of the style. Borrowing from the exotic cultures of Ancient Egypt, Meso-America, the oriental East and Africa and from the man-made world of skyscrapers and machines, Art Deco developed a highly distinctive iconography. It embraced the natural world of plants and animals, sunbursts and fountains, together with the geometric forms of avant-garde painting and design, and eventually found expression in the symbolic idiom of streamlining. Deeply eclectic and highly decorative, Art Deco celebrated fantasy, fun and glamour - themes which still strike a popular chord and account for Art Deco's huge appeal throughout the world today."--Jacket.
First Sentence
Eclecticism is one of the defining features of Art Deco.
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