Windows at Tiffany's the Art of Gene Moore, 1st Edition 1980 Photography and Styling Book

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There is an art gallery in New York City that is open every day, all day, … Read more From inside dust jacket:
There is an art gallery in New York City that is open every day, all day, and even all night. Its clientele is enormous and anonymous. This gallery comprises the five small display windows (two on Fifth Avenue, three on Fifty-seventh Street) of Tiffany & Co. Here for nearly twenty-five years Gene Moore has delighted people from all over the world with his beautiful, dramatic, and witty compositions.
Viewers who may have longed for a "catalogue" (the window installations are changed every two weeks) will treasure Windows at Tiffany's. For his innumerable aficionados--both long-time and newly won--this is an indispensable and elegant record of the wide range of Moore's artistry, illustrating his windows at Tiffany's and including his earlier work at I. Miller, Delman's, Bergdorf Goodman, and Bonwit Teller. Moore's Christmas displays for the Seagram Building, his sets and costumes for Sir John Gielgud and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, as well as his early jewelry designs, all have a place in this fascinating account of a unique and glamorous career.
Drawing upon his background as a painter, photographer, jewelry designer, and set and costume designer for theater and ballet, Moore creates windows that are true works of art--dazzling timely, and often surreal. His bold and ingenious use of unusual materials--sand, shells, plastic tubing, rope, sports equipment, eggs, tools (to name a few)--makes viewers gasp with astonished admiration and brings them back to this "gallery" time and again. Frequently Moore commissions work of other artists to be used in his designs, and over the years he has thus given visibility to many as yet unknowns (including, in the fifties, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Warhol).
The text is a revealing profile of the artist. And we hear from Gene Moore himself: in his hitherto unpublished piece "Taste in the Marketplace" and in the commentaries that accompany the more than 200 different displays presented in this remarkable showcase.
Judith Goldman serves as adviser to the Print Department of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and is a contributing editor of ARTnews, she writes a monthly column on collecting for Vogue Magazine.

213 illustrations, including 66 plates in full color
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