Research Catalog
Art deco sculpture
- Title
- Art deco sculpture / Alastair Duncan.
- Author
- Duncan, Alastair, 1942-
- Publication
- London : Thames and Hudson, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm
- Summary
- This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. The works shown demonstrate a sometimes bewilderingly broad range of styles and stylistic influences. Alastair Duncan organizes his subject into three main categories: the first features work by avant-garde sculptors (Csaky, Janniot, Pompon, etc), often as pieces uniques or small editions; the second shows commercial sculpture, comprising mainly large-edition statuary, commissioned as decorative works for the burgeoning 1920s domestic market; while a final, third category covers architectural and monumental sculpture from West and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Brazil and beyond. With artists' biographies and details of manufacturers, a full glossary and a thematic index, this volume is the essential and authoritative guide for all those interested in the Art Deco style, from the amateur collector of animalier sculpture to professional historians of the period.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388) and index.
- Contents
- The art of the interwar sculptor. Pioneers of the new aesthetic -- Animalier sculptors -- Paris as the centre of Art Deco -- La Ruche Artists' Colony, Montparnasse -- Émigré artists in the USA -- Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina -- Materials and techniques -- Featured artists: Jan and Joël Martel; Victor Brecheret; John Storrs; François Pompon; Édouard-Marcel Sandoz; Alfred Auguste Janniot; Jean Lambert-Rucki; Gustave Miklos; Joseph Csáky; Carl Paul Jennewein; Boris Lovet-Lorski; Paul Manship; Carl Milles -- Sculpture in the commercial and decorative arts. Commercial foundries and éditeurs d'art -- Materials and techniques -- Celebrity culture and sports -- Exotica -- Decorative furniture elements -- The Oscar statuette -- The Emmy statuette -- Car mascots -- Featured artists: Ferdinand Preiss; Demetre Chiparus; Hagenauer -- Architectural and monumental sculpture. Architectural art deco sculpture in the USA -- US world's fairs of the 1930s -- Scandinavia -- Italian fascist-era sculpture -- Musée des Colonies, Paris -- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janiero -- War memorials and grave monuments -- Public buildings -- Featured artist: Francisco Salamone.
- Call Number
- JQG 17-424
- ISBN
- 9780500239483
- 0500239487
- LCCN
- 2016933410
- OCLC
- 958378378
- Author
- Duncan, Alastair, 1942- author.
- Title
- Art deco sculpture / Alastair Duncan.
- Publisher
- London : Thames and Hudson, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JQG 17-424