"Art Deco" Coffee Table Book, Decorative Book with Art Color Plates
$48.00
Stunning large scale Art Deco art coffee table book by Victor Arwas, profusely illustrated with 436 illustrations, including 339 plates in full color and includes material not previously published.
"Victor Arwas' Art Deco is the most serious and comprehensive book on the subject... the book itself is an object of striking elegance."-Newsweek
"This must be the most lavish book on Art Deco ever published." -Artforum
This book provides a broad insight into the Art Deco decorative style, tracing its evolution from its first appearance at the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. It discusses the work of leading French Art Deco exponents, such as Ruhlmann, Puiforcat, Erté, Dunand, and Lalique.
There are separate chapters on the 1925 Exposition, Furniture, Met-alwork, Silver, Dinanderie, Enamel and Lacquer, Jewelry, Tabletterie, Chryselephantine Statuettes and Salon Bronzes, Sculpture, Paintings, Posters, Graphics and Book Illustrations, Bookbinding, Glass, and Ceramics.
It includes a special section of biographies of more than 140 artists, plus a bibliography and an index, making this an invaluable reference work for the collector or anyone interested in Art Deco, the 1920s-1930s and the decorative arts.
C O N D I T I O N
Book is in great vintage condition. Pages are bold and bright, free of marks and foxing. Binding is tight. The dust jacket shows some very light wear— minimal shelf and edge wear, a crease on the top of the spine, and on the inside front flap. The actual hardcover looks great.
B I B L I O G R A P H I C D E T A I L S
Art Deco, Victor Arwas
First published Great Britain 1992 by Academy Editions, London
Copyright 1992 Victor Arwas
Revised edition 1992
Published in 1992 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York
316 pages, printed and bound in Singapore
Printed cloth hardcover with gilded dustjacket
Measures 10 1/2"H x 12 1/4"W x 1 1/2"D
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