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Art Deco of the 20s and 30s: A Design Handbook

Author: Bevis Hillier
Category: Art Theory
Publisher: The Herbert Press Limited
ISBN: 0 906969 53 0
Year: 1968
Subject: Architecture, Design, Jewellery, Ceramics, Textiles, Glass, Metalwork, Art History
Description: This was the first book (in the 1960s) to be published on Art Deco and it did much to popularise that name for the dominant decorative style of the twenties and thirties. it was a pioneering study which set the guidelines for a subject which had never been defined or anatomised. It also inspired the big Deco Revival in late 1960s and 1970s design.

Now reissued in a large format, this lively modern classic treats the subject as both social history and art history.
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