"New Backgrounds for a New Age" 1927 Park, Edwin Avery

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PARK, Edwin Avery

[225] pp.

Harcourt, Brace and Company

1927

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Survey of advanced tendencies in … Read more PARK, Edwin Avery

[225] pp.

Harcourt, Brace and Company

1927

9 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Survey of advanced tendencies in contemporary American applied arts and architecture, as influenced by the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, with discussion of work by leading American decorators and craftsmen. A key text on American Art Deco. Contents: The Meaning of "Style"; Decorative Art in Europe - William Morris to 1926; American Esthetics Today; Industrial Democracy and Art; The Tempo of Modern Art; Education; Discovering the New Beauty; Steel, Concrete, and Terra Cotta; Modern American Decorators and Craftsman (two chapters); Possibilities in Decoration; The Future. Designers include Winold Reiss, Paul Zimmerman (interiors), Paul Frankl (furniture), Hunt Diedrich and Henry Varnum Poor (pottery), Cheney silks, Nina Vasselevsky (wallpaper designs); etc. See less