American art deco : architecture and regionalism. / Carla Breeze. txt

Por:

Breeze, Carla

New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 2003Edición: 1st edDescripción: 287 p. ill. ;col. ;plans ; 28 cmTipo de contenido:

text

Tipo de medio:

unmediaded

Tipo de soporte:

volume

ISBN:

9780393019704
0393019705

Tema(s):

Art deco (Architecture) -- United States

Clasificación CDD:

22 720.97309042

Clasificación LoC:

NA712.5.A7 B74 2003

Contenidos:

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The northeast -- The south -- The midwest and prairies -- The southwest -- California and the Pacific northwest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index --

Resumen: "Art deco flourished in cities and small towns throughout America during the 1920s and 1930s. Extremely popular as a statement of modernity and technological progress, art deco movie palaces, dime stores, department stores, courthouses, and schools were ubiquitous in the American landscape. Many of the best examples of the style continue to be used today as important civic and social spaces." "American art deco was unique. Unlike their European counterparts, architects in the United States had "exotic" indigenous cultures for inspiration. Arts such as Navajo chiefs' blankets, Hopi pottery, and Sioux beadwork, characterized by geometric ornament, were easily assimilated into the art deco style. Regionalism - an example of which is the Prairie style, advocated by Frank Lloyd Wright and other progressive architects - also influenced American art deco. America's pioneering and westward migration provided powerful themes and motifs, producing an art deco style with authentic national and regional characteristics." "Two themes bound deco buildings and their decorative schemes together: regional pride, and a growing national symbolism that asserted the buildings' identity as uniquely, independently American. By 1928 art deco skyscrapers, warehouses, manufacturing lofts, apartments, and hotels were being built in all regions of the US, and the ground was broken for many more. Slabs and towers, attenuated pyramids, and innovative pinnacles began to transform many cities into what immigrants had imagined the New World to be - symbols of all that was modern, of the achievements of science, technology, and freedom." "American Art Deco features descriptions - and over 450 color photographs - of 75 lavish and innovative buildings across the country whose exterior features, such as windows, doors, light fixtures, ornament, and interior ceilings, elevator doors, stairways, and ornament, have not been drastically altered or removed. The buildings herein represent those that have maximum architectural integrity, thereby giving us the full scope of this much admired and exciting style."--Jacket.

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Art deco flourished in cities and small towns throughout America during the 1920s and 1930s. Extremely popular as a statement of modernity and technological progress, art deco movie palaces, dime stores, department stores, courthouses, and schools were ubiquitous in the American landscape; numerous examples of the style continue to be viable spaces. American art deco was unique. Unlike their European counterparts, architects in the United States had "exotic" indigenous cultures for inspiration. Arts such as Navajo chiefs' blankets, Hopi pottery, and Sioux beadwork, characterized by geometric ornament, were easily assimilated into the art deco style. Regionalism? good example of which is the Prairie style, advocated by Frank Lloyd Wright and other progressive architects'lso influenced American art deco. America's pioneering and westward migration provided powerful themes and motifs, producing an art deco with authentic national and regional characteristics. American Deco features descriptions'nd over 500 color photographs'f 75 opulent buildings across the country that have been preserved. The photographs document interiors, exteriors, and details of deco skyscrapers, courthouses, theaters, and other significant buildings.

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Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
The northeast --
The south --
The midwest and prairies --
The southwest --
California and the Pacific northwest --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --

"Art deco flourished in cities and small towns throughout America during the 1920s and 1930s. Extremely popular as a statement of modernity and technological progress, art deco movie palaces, dime stores, department stores, courthouses, and schools were ubiquitous in the American landscape. Many of the best examples of the style continue to be used today as important civic and social spaces." "American art deco was unique. Unlike their European counterparts, architects in the United States had "exotic" indigenous cultures for inspiration. Arts such as Navajo chiefs' blankets, Hopi pottery, and Sioux beadwork, characterized by geometric ornament, were easily assimilated into the art deco style. Regionalism - an example of which is the Prairie style, advocated by Frank Lloyd Wright and other progressive architects - also influenced American art deco. America's pioneering and westward migration provided powerful themes and motifs, producing an art deco style with authentic national and regional characteristics." "Two themes bound deco buildings and their decorative schemes together: regional pride, and a growing national symbolism that asserted the buildings' identity as uniquely, independently American. By 1928 art deco skyscrapers, warehouses, manufacturing lofts, apartments, and hotels were being built in all regions of the US, and the ground was broken for many more. Slabs and towers, attenuated pyramids, and innovative pinnacles began to transform many cities into what immigrants had imagined the New World to be - symbols of all that was modern, of the achievements of science, technology, and freedom." "American Art Deco features descriptions - and over 450 color photographs - of 75 lavish and innovative buildings across the country whose exterior features, such as windows, doors, light fixtures, ornament, and interior ceilings, elevator doors, stairways, and ornament, have not been drastically altered or removed. The buildings herein represent those that have maximum architectural integrity, thereby giving us the full scope of this much admired and exciting style."--Jacket.

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Library Journal Review

This photographic survey of Art Deco architecture and interiors in the United States is the most impressive this reviewer has seen to date. It exhibits more than 500 resplendent color photographs of the nation's most popular samples of Jazz Age style, dating from the 1920s to the 1950s, all taken by Breeze, one of the country's foremost architectural photographers. Breeze has also written the text, emphasizing the meaning of Art Deco as an American fusion of geometry, mechanolatry, materiality, and nationality, including nativist cultures. Before European modern architecture of the 1920s blew out the candles on the Beaux Arts wedding cake of design in the mid-20th century, Art Deco was America's leading public and commercial style, featured in post offices, city halls, movie palaces, apartment houses, and department stores all over the country. It was a "people's" style-traditional, ornamental, communicative, and reassuring-and this book will do a lot to retain and revive interest in it. Recommended for all architecture collections.-Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

This handsome photographic survey of American Art Deco architecture is a wonderful addition to the literature on Art Deco. Breeze, an architectural photographer and author of previous books on various aspects of Art Deco, arranges her survey geographically. Regionalism is a major theme and, throughout, she notes local sources for ornamental motifs. She is particularly interested in the influence of Native American design on Art Deco decorative programs. Breeze avoids one of the common frustrations in publications devoted to architecture: the limitation of illustrations to one or two general views of a building. Instead, she focuses on a handful of buildings from each region and provides generous interior as well as exterior views and artfully chosen details from the building's decorative programs. Also noteworthy is her effort to include religious as well as civic and commercial examples of the style. The result is a perceptive and visually rewarding documentation of the subject, beautifully produced. Endnotes. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All levels. D. P. Doordan University of Notre Dame

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