Автор:Edward Lucie-Smith Год: 2004 Издание:Phaidon Press Страниц: 160 ISBN: 9780714835765 The eclectic, international style now known as Art Deco originally took its name from the 1925 Paris "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes". The Art Deco style was all pervasive during the 1920s and 1930s affecting the decorative arts, fine arts and fashion, and, though best known as a style of the applied arts - furniture, ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, glass - it extended its influence into the world of painting. Now issued in paperback this was the first book specifically to examine Art Deco painting and to define it as a genre, and, illustrated in colour throughout, it provides an authoritative and spectacular survey of this rich subject. The author analyses the characteristics of the style, period and history of the movement, explaining its relationship to Classicism, the Symbolists, the Precisionists, photography and Cubism. He discusses the frequent use of classical imagery, the importance of society portraiture, the portrayal of the demi-monde...