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The modernist textile : Europe and America, 1890-1940 / Virginia Gardner Troy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aldershot : Lund Humphries, 2006Description: 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0853319006
  • 9780853319009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 746.09041 23
LOC classification:
  • NK8842 .T76 2006
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Introduction : Objects of neglect ; Objects of value. -- Ch.1. The new art 1890-1905 : The total work of art ; The new art in Europe ; The new art: embroidery ; Decorative painting and textiles ; The art showroom ; Experimental approaches to design ; The new art in Britain and America ; The new art: tapestry. -- Ch.2. Primitivism, abstraction and experimentation 1905-1920 : The Wiener Werkstätte ; Artistic collaborations in the Ateliers and Maison ; Primitivism and the art market ; Abstraction ; Subversive textiles ; Modernist textiles in America. -- Ch.3. Surface-designed and embellished textiles from the 1920s : Other worlds: Cross-cultural sources ; Geometric design ; Art, politics and commerce ; Formulae for design ; The modernist pictorial textile in Europe ; The pictorial textile in America. -- Ch.4. Constructed textiles 1920-1940 : The Bauhaus in Weimar, 1919-1925 ; The Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin, 1925-1932 ; Constructivist textiles beyond the Bauhaus ; The Constructivist impulse in America. -- Ch.5. Nationalism, Surrealism and Pictorialism in the 1930s : The American identity ; Modernist impulses and the American identity ; American Regionalism and Revivalism ; The political agenda ; Alternative impulses ; The pictorial tapestry ; Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index.

Introduction : Objects of neglect ; Objects of value. -- Ch.1. The new art 1890-1905 : The total work of art ; The new art in Europe ; The new art: embroidery ; Decorative painting and textiles ; The art showroom ; Experimental approaches to design ; The new art in Britain and America ; The new art: tapestry. -- Ch.2. Primitivism, abstraction and experimentation 1905-1920 : The Wiener Werkstätte ; Artistic collaborations in the Ateliers and Maison ; Primitivism and the art market ; Abstraction ; Subversive textiles ; Modernist textiles in America. -- Ch.3. Surface-designed and embellished textiles from the 1920s : Other worlds: Cross-cultural sources ; Geometric design ; Art, politics and commerce ; Formulae for design ; The modernist pictorial textile in Europe ; The pictorial textile in America. -- Ch.4. Constructed textiles 1920-1940 : The Bauhaus in Weimar, 1919-1925 ; The Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin, 1925-1932 ; Constructivist textiles beyond the Bauhaus ; The Constructivist impulse in America. -- Ch.5. Nationalism, Surrealism and Pictorialism in the 1930s : The American identity ; Modernist impulses and the American identity ; American Regionalism and Revivalism ; The political agenda ; Alternative impulses ; The pictorial tapestry ; Conclusion.

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