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Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O'Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles, from casual to formal, vintage to urban, alongside stunning photography and charming design stories.
O'Brien carefully describes the design process of his chosen projects, including a downtown New York...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Why do cultures depend so much on mythical illusions to the past? Could the bicycle chained to the gate next door be a work of art? How do human beings really think, when they are not speaking? How do high and low culture relate to one another? Why do we need the p̀rogressive' and the ǹew'?" "In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butter looks at the many innovations created by Modernist thinkers and artists, showing how powerful ideas and...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A rich, wide-ranging meditation on the iPhone as direct descendant of the 1930s Bauhaus, one of the twentieth century's most influential schools of art and design (summed up in Mies van der Rohe's dictum, "less is more") whose principle aim was to connect art and industry. From one of the leading authorities on the Bauhaus and modernism. Nicholas Fox Weber, in this deft, entertaining, and brilliant rumination on art and technology, writes of the...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and the United States from their origins in the 1880s to 1929, situating them in the context of modernism and the rationalization of the body. Fashion shows...
Author
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Vienna lost its best and most creative minds. This rupture was manifested in all of the arts and sciences and its mark is felt to this day - not least in the field of furniture design. With inexhaustible creativity the Jewish furniture designers who were forced to flee Vienna continued to work while in exile. They taught at the best universities and spread their ideas and vision throughout the entire world. Their creations became classics...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful and expansive look at Modernist design, representing iconic works including architecture, interiors, graphic design, and product design. This wide-ranging survey showcases and analyzes the work of dozens of Modernist designers, from those who established the International Style in the 1920s and '30s through the groundbreaking practitioners of the mid-1940s ... This lively and accessible volume includes sections on furniture, lighting,...
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book investigates the recurrences of Piranesi in the fields of literature, photography, art, film and architecture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and argues that Piranesi is not only ingrained in the modern age in a manner hitherto overlooked, but that the formulation of the modern depended on the rediscovery, or rather series of rediscoveries, of Piranesi from 1900 until today"--
Author
Publisher
Bauer and Dean Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive study of more than one hundred private commissions, model homes, and exhibition displays is a valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts alike, chronicling the development of modern interior design in the United States in the 1930s and featuring interiors by 50 designers, including Virginia Conner, Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Cedric Gibbons, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, Eleanor Le Maire,...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Robin Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway history to date and the most widely reported cultural event of its time. Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage."...