Art Deco Graphics - Couverture souple

Frantz Kery, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500283532 ISBN 13 : 9780500283530

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

Here is the first major book on the dynamic graphic design created in the three decades before World War II, when economic and political upheaval mixed with a wild pursuit of gaiety, luxury, modernism and elegance to produce a style known variously as Modern, Skyscraper, Jazz Style and, eventually, Art Deco. Art Deco style grew in several distinct directions out of the extraordinarily rich cultural melting-pot that was the first quarter of the twentieth century. Art Deco consumed and assimilated the ideas of the vibrant avant-garde art movements, particularly Cubism, Constructivism and Futurism and the early modernist applied arts groups such as the Vienna Secession, German Werkbund and Bauhaus. A flavour of Orientalism from Diaghilev's sensational Ballets Russes, the influences of American black jazz, primitive art and Egyptian culture, and the new world of machines, size, speed and functionalism all contributed to the development of a design style that radically changed visual communication. By the time of the great Paris Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in 1925, the masters of modern art - Picasso, Léger, Kandinsky and others - had transformed the graphic arts. Their visual tactics - abstractions, multidirectional views, distortion, extreme contrasts and striking colour juxtapositions were put to use by a rising generation of brilliant graphic designers such as Cassandre, Jean Carlu, Paolo Garretto, Herbert Bayer, E. McKnight-Kauffer and Herbert Motter. The book covers in depth the styles sources and explores the decorative 'fine arts' that formed a bridge between the radical modern movements and Deco commercial art. There are chapters on posters, magazines, commercial design, books, and fashion and costume, each with an illustrated introductory text followed by a portfolio of stunning illustrations of works that range from the established masterpieces of Art Deco to never-before-reproduced pieces found in Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japon. Art Deco Graphics is both a sourcebook and an inspiration for designers and illustrators, art directors and photographers, scholars and collectors, and for anyone interested in the graphic style of one of the most exciting periods in history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patricia Frantz Kery is a dealer in New York specializing in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century graphics, paintings and watercolours. She is also the author of Great Magazine Covers of the World.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500283532
• ISBN 13: 9780500283530
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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