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This 392 pp. indexed coffee table style book is a beautiful photographic showing of modern tableware, candlesticks, serving pieces, novelties, etc,., all in silver. These pictures are interspersed with pages of explanatory text. The author has genuinely inscribed and signed on the first flyleaf. Near pristine other than 2 minor lower corner bumps. Oversize may require additional postage. Photos upon request. Seller Inventory # 44451
Bibliographic Details
Title: Modernism in American Silver -- 20th Century...
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition
About this title
A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design
From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World’s Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Museum of Art’s Jewel Stern American Silver Collection— which comprises over four hundred extraordinary works in the modern idiom—as well as other objects in the Museum’s collection, and selected pieces on loan, Modernism in American Silver is the first book to study the full scope of progressive design in American silver of the twentieth century.
The book not only focuses on the works of such widely known designers as Michael Graves, Richard Meier, Tommi Parzinger, Elsa Peretti, Eliel Saarinen, Belle Kogan, and Lella and Massimo Vigelli, it also reveals the role of others largely unrecognized, among them Donald H. Colflesh, Kurt Eric Christoffersen, Helen Hughes Dulany, Robert J. King, and Elsa Tennhardt, who were instrumental in shaping silverware for a New Age.
For collectors, scholars, designers, students, and museum visitors interested in silver and design, this book is a beautiful and essential resource.
Jewel Stern is an artist, independent curator, and specialist in the history of twentieth century American silver. Kevin W. Tucker is Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art. Charles Venable is Deputy Director of Collections and Exhibitions for the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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