Sculpture Décorative: Exposition Internationale de 1937 (Text and Portfolio)

Louis Hautecoeur

Verlag: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, Paris, 1937

Beschreibung

Paris: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1937. First Edition. Folio (42x32cm); brochure text of 8pp + 32 separate plates, all present, within large stiff coated portfolio. Portfolio and large textual brochure printed in fawn and chocolate brown. Paper for brochure and 32 plates is heavy cream card stock. Portfolio was repaired, historically, with archival cloth tape closely matching and re-covering the original cloth hinge for the portfolio, still visible inside; portfolio closure ribbons now lacking. Edges and corners of portfolio show knocks and nicks, with some perforations of original affixed plasticized coating on back and at corners. Boards tanned, as are all edges of the textual brochure and plates within. Some edge erosions to brochure and plates, but not affecting text or perusability and usability. Despite signs of age in the paper, the images, in detailed, high-contrast heliogravure, remain crisp and clear. The Exposition Internationale de 1937 in Paris was, perhaps, the culminating moment of innocence for Art Deco-of which these images are superb examples-before it was tainted by the Fascist wave embodied in Mussolini's EUR in Rome and countless Deco-izing Nazi monuments in Germany. Louis Hautecoeur, curator of the Musée du Luxembourg at the time, was director of the art section of the 1937 International Exposition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7144

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sculpture Décorative: Exposition ...

Verlag: Éditions d'Art Charles Moreau, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1937

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1. Auflage