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  Chapter Excerpt: Art Deco: 1910 - 1939 by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Art Deco is the name given to the 'modern', but not Modernist, twentieth-century style that came to worldwide prominence in the inter-war years and left its mark on nearly every visual medium, from fine art, architecture and interior design, to fashion and textiles, film and photography.
In contrast to Art Nouveau, Art Deco was not permeated by a belief in the redemptive value of art; nevertheless it was, to a large extent, premised on the notion that modern artistic ideas could be used to palliate — even 'streamline' — the interface between the consumer and the workings of the market-place.
Art Deco is a complex style, but as this book shows, it is by no means resistant to conventional methods of categorization and interpretation, despite the difficulties posed by its formal eclecticism and the variety of genres it encompassed.
www.twbookmark.com /books/57/082122834x/chapter_excerpt17563.html   (6369 words)

  
 Art Deco: 1910-1939
Art Deco swept across the globe during the 1920s and 1930s and created the defining look of the interwar years.
Art Deco was the style of hedonism, of indulgence, and of mass consumption.
ART DECO 1910-1939 is the most wide-ranging survey of what created such an utterly distinctive iconography.
www.coolteenbooks.com /c/Catalog/Art_Deco_1910_1939_082122834X.htm   (460 words)

  
 ART DECO 1910-1939
Art Deco, the first exhibition to be displayed in the Museum’s newly renovated Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall, is on display until Sunday, January 4, 2004.
At the ROM, the lead curators of Art Deco 1910-1939 are Peter Kaellgren and Brian Musselwhite of the ROM’s Western Art and Culture Department.
Art Deco 1910-1939 is proudly presented by the Art Shoppe.
www.minimidimaxi.com /Canadian_fashion/crew/jump.cgi?ID=1726   (1984 words)

  
 V & A - Art Deco Resources
ISBN: 1 85177 387 8 £40.00 HB Embracing fashion, design, film, art and architecture, 'Art Deco 1910-1939' celebrates the style that took the world by storm in the interwar years.
ISBN: 1 85177 389 4 £12.95 HB A stunning visual overview of the key aspects of Art Deco, this compact and stylish book offers an exciting new take on '20s and '30s style and is an indispensable introduction to the subject.
ISBN: 1 85177 392 4 £30.00 HB Lavishly illustrated throughout, 'Art Deco Textiles' covers one of the most innovative and vibrant periods of textile design, when sophisticated and exotic prints dazzled the world, creating innovative contributions to the style in their own right.
www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/resources   (197 words)

  
 Countrybookshop.co.uk - Art Deco 1910-1939
Ghislaine Wood was curator of the V&A exhibition Art Deco 1910-1939 (2003).
She co-curated the major exhibition Art Nouveau 1890-1914 in 2000 and is author of Art Nouveau and the Erotic (V&A 2000) and Essential Art Deco (V&A 2003).
Art Deco was the style that swept across the globe during the 1920s and 1930s and created the defining look of the interwar years.
www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=1851773886   (262 words)

  
 Art & Medicine Books 1900-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Hall, M. Fashion drawing technique, being a number of hints for the art student upon the treatment of the human figure in all its phases, from the nude to the draped; especially as applied to fashion drawing technique.
The Meier-Seashore art judgment test, developed in the Art-psychology laboratory of the University of Iowa by Norman Charles Meier, PH.D. Iowa City,, Bureau of educational research and service University of Iowa.
Richardson, B. Old age among the ancient Greeks : the Greeks portrayal of old age in literature, art, and inscriptions, with a study of the duration of life among the ancient Greeks on the basis of inscriptional evidence.
www.medlina.com /art_&_medicine_books_1900-1939.htm   (1349 words)

  
 Art Deco 1910-1939
This was the style that took its name from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, an exhibition held in Paris in 1925, although even before the First World War avant garde designers were producing one-off pieces that would be later classified as Art Deco.
In the 1920s and 30s, Art Deco was the style of the times and its designers had worldwide influence.
Art Deco buildings are still much admired and actively preserved in places as far apart as New Zealan and New York and prices rise steadily for Art Deco pieces of all kinds.
artantiques.allinfo-about.com /weekly/books/deco1910.html   (348 words)

  
 Art Deco 1910-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Not until the 1960's was the term "Art Deco" coined to describe the style that swept the world in the booming 1920's, continuing on into the Depression until the mid-1930's.
While some painters (Léger, Lempicka) and sculptors (Brancusi) both inspired Art Deco and were influenced by similar sources and ideas, this was primarily a decorative style, one expressed in architecture, interiors, furnishings, housewares, fashion, and film.
Preceded by turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau, Art Deco rejected the elaborate, rococo look of its forebear, instead reaching for a simplified, sleek, streamlined look that reflected the advancing mechanization of the age and an optimistic world view characterized by progress, speed, and glamour.
www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch2/ArtDeco.htm   (687 words)

  
 Art Gallery Act 1939 [Act]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This Act may be cited as the Art Gallery Act 1939.
The board may, upon any special occasion, or for any special purpose, require that admission to the art gallery or any part of the art gallery be subject to such charge as is fixed by the board.
(1) A gift or bequest made to or for the benefit or purposes of the art gallery, or the board, or the governing body of the art gallery, will be taken to be a gift or bequest to or on behalf or for the benefit or purposes of the board.
www.parliament.sa.gov.au /Catalog/legislation/Acts/a/1939.28.htm   (2626 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Art Deco 1910-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Its use of rare and unashamedly precious materials was a reminder of the wealth of empires, whilst its geometric imagery celebrated urban modernity and the experience of modernity worldwide.
I thought the last two sections were a fascinating coverage of how Art Deco spread around the world, mainly as architecture and fashion, though in Europe also as a fine art style.
Perhaps this was the only art form that was truly democratic in that it was available (as streamlining) to be seen or bought on any Main Street across the Nation.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1851773878   (729 words)

  
 The Nation, 01/21/1939 - Art as Expression by Vivas, Eliseo
For in spite of the seeming neglect into which Croce has fallen, his theory of art as expression is still widely, though unwittingly, held, even by those who reject the notion of art for art's sake.
...If art is the imaginative expression of emotion, it is an activity which is different in kind from other modes of human activity, and it has no relation to craft or technique Nor has it anything to do with representation or amusement...
...But if art is the expression of emotion, it is a purely inward, spontaneous, imaginative activity, complete when the emotion is felt by anyone to have achieved satisfactory clarification or intelligibility...
www.nationarchive.com /Summaries/v148i0004_19.htm   (676 words)

  
 New Deal/W.P.A. Artist Biographies
His works are in the Fogg Museum of Art; Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Zanesville, OH Art Institute.
Born in 1918 in St. Louis, MO. "Suzanne Martyl was a student of the Art Institute of Chicago under the well known WPA artist Arnold Blanch and she later studied in the Provincetown Art Community under Charles Hawthorne at the Hawthorne School of Art.
Illustrator: Esquire, Ringmaster, New Masses (47) note: In 1939 Siporin and Millman won the national competition to paint 17 frescoes in the new USPO in St. Louis, MO. Siporin founded the Brandeis University Fine Arts department in 1951 (having taught at Brandeis since 1949) and was the first curator of the University's art collection.
www.wpamurals.com /wpabios.html   (12195 words)

  
 Metroactive Arts | 'Art Deco: 1910-1939'
Art Deco started as a reaction against the excesses of Art Nouveau with its tendrils and elaborate swirling motifs.
At the same time, Art Deco reveled in an exuberance that culminated in skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building and the Rockefeller Center (represented by the original architectural model) to the neo-Egyptian, neo-Moorish, neo-Mayan movie palaces that popped up in even small-town America in the 1920s and '30s.
In the 1930s, Art Deco became a truly global style, permeating every level of design and spread by visions of fanciful interiors constructed on Hollywood back lots for movies like Grand Hotel and the extravaganzas of Busby Berkeley.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.12.04/art-deco-0420.html   (514 words)

  
 Art Deco 1910-1939 opens on September 20, 2003 - ROM Media Release
Leger's use of geometric abstraction with bold patterning is in keeping with the industrial aesthetic of sculpture and decorative arts of the Art Deco period.
Art Deco brings together, for the first time since 1925, a group of important works which were exhibited in The Grand Salon of the Hotel d'un Collectionneur, including Jean Dupas' well-known painting Les Perruches (The Parakeets), a provocative oil on canvas.
Art Deco was curated by Ghislaine Wood, Tim Benton and Charlotte Benton.
www.rom.on.ca /news/releases/public.php?mediakey=7u80ad708x   (2103 words)

  
 1939 article - 1939 1936 1937 1938 1940 1941 1942 Decades 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1936 1937 1938 - 1939 - 1940 1941 1942
November 6 - The Hedda Hopper Show debuts with Hollywood gossip Hedda Hopper as host (the show ran until 1951 and made Hopper a powerful figure in the Hollywood elite).
1939 article - 1939 definition - what means 1939
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/1939   (1434 words)

  
 MoCo SanFrancisco: Art Deco 1910-1939
Glamorous, exotic, and vibrant, Art Deco is widely considered the most popular style of the 20th century.
This is the first exhibition to explore Art Deco as a global phenomenon.
Art Deco, 1910-1939 presents over 300 works in painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, textiles, glass, metal, jewelry, graphic art, product, industrial design, fashion, film and photography.
mocoloco.com /sanfrancisco/archives/000454.php   (229 words)

  
 ART215 AUSTRALIAN ART FROM 1939 (8)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This subject provides a survey of Australian art from 1939 to the present.
Themes discussed include the ‘Angry Decade’ (1937-1947), the Antipodeans, abstract expressionism, the function of international exhibitions and art magazines, pop art, minimal and conceptual art, neo-expressionism and post modernity.
The opening up of the processes of art to include new forms and to represent groups previously marginalised because of gender, class or ethnicity is discussed via the examples of specifically feminist art and contemporary Aboriginal painting.
www.csu.edu.au /handbook/subjects/ART215.html   (105 words)

  
 Alphonse Mucha | Biography (1860-1939) Master of Art Nouveau
Four of the drawings were exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais in 1894 and twenty-seven were shown at the Galerie de la Bodiniere in 1897.
His work was academic in the best sense of the term - composed, true to life and perspective, meticulous in its historical research.
Faced with designing an original poster, however, he showed that he had absorbed and retained the lessons of his predecessors, his contemporaries, and the art of other countries and other eras, and was capable of transforming all these passing influences into his own vocabulary of image and layout.
www.leninimports.com /alphonse_mucha_2.html   (1390 words)

  
 All Info About Art & Antiques
As the main founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, William Morris was a pivotal figure in the move away from the fussiness and clutter of High Victorian style towards something with which we are more familiar today.
Although short-lived, the Aesthetic Movement was important as a precursor to the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau and, ultimately, Art Deco.
The Oxford History of Art series provides a good introduction or background knowledge to various aspects of art and these two latest additions, Design in the USA and Beauty and Art, are no exception as each one puts forward arguments on the political and social aspects of art.
artantiques.allinfo-about.com   (590 words)

  
 Exhibitions
The Legion of Honor is one of two American venues for Art Deco, 1910-1939.
Art Deco, 1910–1939 is organized by the VandA, London.
The presentation in San Francisco is generously supported by the San Francisco Auxiliary of the Fine Arts Museums and RBC Dain Rauscher.
www.thinker.org /legion/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=320   (273 words)

  
 The Legion of Honor ART DECO 1910-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Art Deco - the style that swept across the globe during the 1920s and 1930s and created the defining look of the interwar years.
Its influence was ubiquitous: it touched the design of everything - from cinemas and Hollywood films to the packaging of cigarettes, from eveningwear and accessories to luxury liners and locomotives.
Art Deco looks at the sources of inspiration and global impact of this popular style of the early 20th century.
www.museumtix.com /venue/program.asp?vid=126&pid=1033691   (205 words)

  
 A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918 — 1939 - Tacoma Art Museum - Absolutearts.com
Tacoma Art Museum will be the only West Coast venue for the internationally touring exhibition, A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918 — 1939 on view from December 20, 2003 through March 28, 2004.
Paris was the world’s art center before World War II, attracting international artists who gleaned ideas and styles from the city’s heady scene.
The exhibition is locally supported by The Allen Foundation for the Arts and Comcast, and will be on view in the Weyerhaeuser Family, The Boeing Company, and the Jane and George Russell Galleries.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2003/12/22/31651.html   (720 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Sloan (American Art, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lock Haven, Pa. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked for 12 years as an illustrator on the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Press.
A member of the Eight, he was active in organizing the Society of Independent Artists and was its president from 1918.
Long a popular teacher at the Art Students League of New York City, he was elected president in 1930.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sloan-Jo.html   (322 words)

  
 1930-1939 : ART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Art form of the 1930's was Surrealism.
This kind of art set forth an expression of the subconscious mind.
Many artists used the Surrealist art form in their costume design, such as ELSA SCHIAPARELLI, and YVES ST. LAURENT.
www.dilpreetbawa.com /historyofashion/30art.html   (95 words)

  
 Target : Entertainment : Art Deco: 1910-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Art Deco was the style of hedonism, of indulgence, and.
Second, the essays are more in-depth, engaging, and informative than any other book I've found on the subject.
Reviewer: Robin Benson from Southampton UK A sumptuous coffee-table book of this exuberant art style and I think it could well become the standard book on the subject.
www.target.com /gp/detail.html?asin=082122834X   (221 words)

  
 Art Deco 1910-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Art Deco 1910-1939, edited by Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, and Ghislaine Wood (Bulfinch Press, 2003, 464 pp., hardbound, $65).
The exhibit, which originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto through January 4.
It will be in San Francisco at the Legion of Honor from March 6 to July 4 and then at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from September 9 through January 9, 2005.
www.maineantiquedigest.com /books/bk1925.htm   (134 words)

  
 HMS Locust (1939) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
HMS Locust (1939 - 1968) was a gunboat of the Royal Navy and is named after the locust, an insect.
Launched September 28 1939 and commissioned in May 17 1940, it survived World War II service, but was severely damaged multiple times (including taking a shell hit in Operation Overlord).
It was placed in reserves in 1946, until 1951 when it was converted to a drill ship and used for training.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/HMS_Locust   (123 words)

  
 Alphonse Mucha | Biography (1860-1939) Master of Art Nouveau
Repetitive decorative motifs were entrusted to craftsmen who followed his original designs, and within three months he had completed 134 coloured lithographs in addition to designing the book and its cover.
It also ran an art gallery, the Salon des Cent, and published and sold original posters and decorative panels by many artists in and on the fringe of the Art Nouveau style.
He produced posters for liqueurs such as Benedictine and La Trappistine, for Job cigarette papers, for Bieres de la Meuse, for Nestle's, for a perfume spray, the Monaco-Monte Carlo railway, Cycles Perfecta, the tonic Vin des Incas, Moot & Chandon champagne, and Lefevre-Utile biscuits.
www.leninimports.com /alphonse_mucha_4.html   (2022 words)

  
 Discount Shopping Online :: Books Art Deco: 1910-1939 : :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s
This book discusses every facet of Art Deco as well: it explores the origins at the Paris Exhibition in 1925, goes through the influence in East Asia, Latin America, and South Africa, not to mention Europe.
A great chapter on Deco in Hollywood; also explores all of the sources, iconography - and all of this on top of covering every aspect of the movement - ceramics, jewelry, fashion, architecture, glass, photography, graphic design, bookbindings, travel and transport, and so so much more - with stunning visuals.
www.bookspublications.com /082122834X/Art_Deco_1910-1939.html   (837 words)

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