Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945: Selections from the Wolfsonian
by Kaplan, Wendy (Edited by)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0500237069
- ISBN 13
- 9780500237069
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About This Item
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Cloth, 352 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published to accompany the inaugural touring exhibition of the Wolfsonian, Palm Beach, Fla., November 11, 1995 to May 18, 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Confronting modernity: traditions transformed - romantic nationalism in design, 1890-1920; German design and national identity, 1890-1918; the decorative arts in Amsterdam, 1890-1930; the English compromise - modern design and national consciousness, 1870-1940. Celebrating modernity: domesticating modernity - ambivalence and appropriation, 1920-1940; forging modern Italy; a "return to order" - issues of the vernacular and the classical in Italian inter-war design. Manipulating modernity - political persuasion: political things - design in Fascist Italy; design in inter-war Germany; emblems of production - workers in German, Italian and American art during the 1930's... 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- Title
- Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, 1885-1945: Selections from the Wolfsonian
- Author
- Kaplan, Wendy (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0500237069
- ISBN 13
- 9780500237069
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; European / 7. Late 19th Century;
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