The decorative twenties

Arts & Photography

BATTERSBY, Martin

History & Criticism

Collier Books

The decorative Thirties

Nearly two hundred illustrations exemplify the impact of world depression and political instability on the work of artists, decorators, and craftsmen, particularly in England, France, and the United States

The Decorative Thirties

Architecture

Decorative Thirties

Studio Vista

This reference work is a revision of the original text and describes the kaleidoscopic range of styles within the Twenties, a decade of creativity which saw development in book production, graphics, fashion, jewellery, glassware, ceramics, textile and wallpaper design. The author describes Art Deco and analyzes in detail the work of the great artists and designers in France, England and America - Paul Poiret, Emile-Jaques Ruhlmann, Rene Lalique, Jena Dunand, Syrie Maugham, Elsie de Wolfe - and the movements and technical innovations that influenced them. Martin Battersby was internationally recognized as a trompe l'oeil painter and mural decorator and his acquisitions of Art Nouveau and Art Deco form the basis of the collection now at the Brighton Museum. The editor, Philippe Garner, is author of "Emile Galle"(1976) and is the editor of "The Phaidon Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, 1890-1940" (1978). He provides a brief biography of Battersby in the text.

Decorative Twenties

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

This is the first comprehensive record of the decorative applied arts during the period between the Armistice after World War I and the Wall Street crash of 1929. Martin Battersby has provided a penetrating and often highly amusing account of the resurgence of creative design in most of the minor arts. Designers and artists worked again in the idiom of the opulent, decorative luxury of the late Edwardian period when the great designers of the Russian ballet were the arbiters of taste - a nostalgic trend that culminated in The Paris Exhibition of 1925, the first to be devoted entirely to contemporary decorative arts. But in the face of industrialization, social disillusion, growing unemployment and a faster pace of life, this ornate "art deco" mode gave way to the hard chic of the geometrical, streamlined ' new modernism ' that dominated the second half of the decade. Martin Battersby traces the various influences (Cubism, African art, technical innovations) that revolutionized almost every aspect of design: fashion, interior decoration, ceramics, jewelry, decorative painting and sculpture, posters and bookbinding. Glass and furniture of the twenties are discussed in depth, and this material will prove invaluable for collectors. France, as the admitted leader in chic and originality during this period, receives the greater emphasis; but English work, more conservative than the French, is extensively treated. Trends in America, particularly the work of interior decorators and textile designers, are examined as well.

Walker

Art Deco Fashion: French Designers, 1908-1925 (Academy Art Editions)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St Martins Pr

Art nouveau (The Colour library of art)

Hamlyn

54 full color illustrations of an art showing at the Pasadena Art Museum.

Art Nouveau (The Colour Library of Art)

The Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd.

The Decorative Twenties.

Walker Co

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