The Jazz Age

American Style in the 1920s

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Pub Date 09 May 2017 | Archive Date 24 Apr 2017
Yale University Press | The Cleveland Museum of Art

Description

An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor  

Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era’s jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores American taste and style during the golden age of the 1920s. Following the destructive years of the First World War, this flourishing decade marked a rebirth of aesthetic innovation that was cultivated to a great extent by American talent and patronage. Due to an influx of European émigrés to the United States, as well as American enthusiasm for traveling to Europe’s cultural capitals, a reciprocal wave of experimental attitudes began traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, forming a creative vocabulary that mirrored the ecstatic spirit of the times.
 
The Jazz Age showcases developments in design, art, architecture, and technology during the ’20s and early ’30s, and places new emphasis on the United States as a vital part of the emerging marketplace for Art Deco luxury goods. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations and essays by two leading historians of decorative arts, this comprehensive catalogue shows how America and the rest of the world worked to establish a new visual representation of modernity.

Sarah D. Coffin is curator and head of product design and decorative arts at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Stephen Harrison is curator of decorative art and design at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Emily M. Orr is assistant curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor  

Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era’s jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores...

A Note From the Publisher

Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art

Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art


Marketing Plan

Exhibition Schedule:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
(04/07/17–08/20/17)

Cleveland Museum of Art
(09/30/17–01/14/18)

Exhibition Schedule:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
(04/07/17–08/20/17)

Cleveland Museum of Art
(09/30/17–01/14/18)


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9780300224054
PRICE $60.00 (USD)
PAGES 360

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