Art Deco Graphics - Hardcover

Kery, Patricia Frantz; Lee, Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810918536 ISBN 13: 9780810918535

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1986

Synopsis

Traces the influence of the art deco style on the design of posters, clothes, packaging, wallpaper, magazine covers, and book illustrations

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Frantz Kery owns an art gallery in New York which specializes in late nineteenth. and early twentieth-century graphics, paintings and watercolours. She is also the author of Great Magazine Covers of the World.

From Publishers Weekly:

The art deco style, usually associated with furniture, architecture and jewelry, also spilled over into graphic art, as this abundantly illustrated survey proves. From posters to packaging, fashion, wallpaper, magazine covers, menus and book illustration, art deco artists merged the fragmentary techniques of cubism, Russian constructivist logic and the energy and speed of futurism into a unique style. This blockbuster survey, billed as the first devoted exclusively to art deco graphics, includes hundreds of examples by A. M. Cassandre, Lucien Bernhard, Erte, Leger, Bakst, El Lissitzsky and scores of less well-known artists. In commercial design, art deco was clearly part of a revolution that redefined layout and typography. For its nostalgic charm, intrinsic interest and recovery of little-known beautiful works, the book is significant. Kery is a curator in the art deco/art nouveau fields. (October
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0810918536
• ISBN 13: 9780810918535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320