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Modernism : designing a new world, 1914-1939 / edited by Christopher Wilk.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : V & A Pub. : New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2008..Edition: Pbk. edDescription: 447 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 9781851774746
  • 1851774742
  • 1851774777 (pbk.)
  • 9781851774777 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Designing a new world, 1914-1939
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.4112 22
LOC classification:
  • N6494.M64 M636 2008
Other classification:
  • 20.70
Contents:
Introduction. What was modernism? / Christopher Wilk -- Searching for utopia / Christina Lodder -- The machine / Christopher Green -- Performing modernism / Tag Gronberg -- Building utopia / Tim Benton -- Sitting on air / Christopher Wilk -- The healthy body culture / Christopher Wilk -- Film as a modernist art / Ian Christie -- Modernism and nature / Tim Benton -- National modernisms / David Crowley -- Mass-market modernism / Ian Christie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.
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Books Books Stickley Museum Library (Non-Circulating) Main Reading Room N6494.M64 M636 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SMCF22030341

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Apr. 6-July 23 2006, the Museum MARTa, Herford, Germany, Sept. 16, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Mar. 17-July 29, 2007.

Originally published: London : V & A Publications ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-435) and index.

Introduction. What was modernism? / Christopher Wilk -- Searching for utopia / Christina Lodder -- The machine / Christopher Green -- Performing modernism / Tag Gronberg -- Building utopia / Tim Benton -- Sitting on air / Christopher Wilk -- The healthy body culture / Christopher Wilk -- Film as a modernist art / Ian Christie -- Modernism and nature / Tim Benton -- National modernisms / David Crowley -- Mass-market modernism / Ian Christie -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.

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