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Craft in the Machine Age 1920-1945: The History of Twentieth-Century American Craft
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Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.097309041
EAN: 9780810919686
ISBN: 0810919680
Label: Harry N Abrams
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 1995-10
Publisher: Harry N Abrams
Studio: Harry N Abrams
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This book was published as a catalogue for a 1991 show at the American Craft Museum. The show's purpose was to look at Craft in the United States from 1920-1945. This was an exciting period when American industrial designers took many of the emerging ideas of European Modernism and gave these new theories a unique American character. This age known variously as Depression Modern, Streamline, Art Moderne and Art Deco.
What makes this book interesting is that it focuses on craft. There are chapters on wood working, metal working, glass blowing, ceramics and textiles. As would be expected, this book covers the iconic works of the masters such as Teague, Deskey, Rhode and Wright. But there are also a number of less well known craftmen of the period. It is these more obscure figures that make this book compelling. Their contributions illustrate that fact that this was a movement as oppossed to the exceptional works of a few remarkable craftsmen.
"Craft in the Machine Age" is filled with numerous photographs and has chapters on the different crafts written by museum curators and academics. As you would expect, it is a well made professional catalogue of a major art exhibition. This book is a must purchase for enthusiasts of American material culture in the years between the two World Wars. Highly recommended.
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