American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism - Hardcover

Breeze, Carla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393019705 ISBN 13: 9780393019704

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2003

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Featuring descriptions and photographs of 75 innovative and lavishly designed art deco buildings, this book demonstrates the full scope of this stunning architectural style and reveals how a growing national symbolism in 1920s and 30s America manifested itself in this new design.

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Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples office buildings, movie theaters, hotels, and churches are still in use. Deco architects, artists, and designers drew on European styles but were most committed to a style that grew organically, as they saw it, from their native soil. Two themes bound Deco buildings and their decorative schemes together: a regional pride that tied buildings to their specific locales and functions, and a growing national symbolism that asserted the buildings' identity as uniquely, independently American. American Art Deco features description sand over 500 color photographs of seventy-five lavish and innovatively designed buildings across the country that have been preserved both outside and in, giving the full scope of this beloved, exciting style.

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Art deco architecture flourished in urban areas thropughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples - office buildings, cinemas, hotels and churches - are still in use. Deco architects, artists and designers drew on European styles but were committed to a style that grew organically from their native soil. Two themes bound Deco buildings and their decorative schemes together: a regional pride that tied buildings to their specific locales and functions, and a growing national symbolism that asserted the buildings' identity as American. This book features descriptions and photographs of 75 innovative and lavishly designed art deco buildings, demonstrating the full scope of this stunning architectural style.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393019705
• ISBN 13: 9780393019704
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320