Art Deco: 50 Works of Art You Should Know - Orr Lynn Federle
Art Deco: 50 Works of Art You Should Know - Orr Lynn Federle This new addition to Prestel's successful "50s" series focuses on Art Deco, an artistic movement that originated in France after World War…
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Art Deco: 50 Works of Art You Should Know - Orr Lynn Federle
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. 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. Presented chronologically in full-page illustrations accompanied by explanatory texts, these fifty iconic examples demonstrate the variety of ways Art Deco was expressed.
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 Other examples include jewellery, architecture, posters and items used in everyday life.