Art Deco: 50 Works Of Art You Should Know
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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 The Portrait of a Young Girl in a Green Dress by the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. Other examples include jewelry, 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. AUTHOR: Lynn Federle Orr is an art historian, lecturer, and museum professional. As Curator-in-Charge of European Art, she oversaw the permanent collection and galleries of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. She has lectured and published widely on the 17th and 19th centuries. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 80 Colour Illustrations
Author: Lynn Federle Orr
Format: Hardback, 128 pages, 202mm x 245mm, 488 g
Published: 2015, Prestel, Germany
Genre: Fine Arts / Art History
Description
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 The Portrait of a Young Girl in a Green Dress by the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka. Other examples include jewelry, 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. AUTHOR: Lynn Federle Orr is an art historian, lecturer, and museum professional. As Curator-in-Charge of European Art, she oversaw the permanent collection and galleries of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. She has lectured and published widely on the 17th and 19th centuries. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. 80 Colour Illustrations
Art Deco: 50 Works Of Art You Should Know