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by: Paul Johnson, Kate Carmel, Marilyn B. Fish, David A. Hanks, Frederica Todd Harlow, Christine Wallace Laidlaw, R. Craig Miller, Lenore Newman, Marc O. Rabun, Gregory Saliola, Penny Sparke  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780810924802 ISBN: 0810924803 Label: Harry N Abrams Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1995-12 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Studio: Harry N Abrams Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This text offers a perspective on the decorative arts of the mid-20th century. It focuses on 200 of the finest objects from the most important designers and artists of the time, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi and Mario Bellini. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Modern in the Past TenseA comprehensive survey of the decorative arts from 1935 through 1965 but unfortunately I was disappointed by the editorial arrangement of this book. It is basically encyclopaedic in nature but the editors decided to split it into the following chapters, Streamline Modern, Biomorphic modern, Modern historicism, Postwar modernism, Modern pattern and ornament, Expressionist modern and finally Beyond Modern. Many of the artists mentioned, of course, easily drop into one or more of these periods. For ... Read More 
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