1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Art Deco
Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five sections based on key concepts: migration, public culture, fashion, politics, and Art Deco’s afterlife in heritage restoration and new media. The book provides a range of perspectives on and approaches to these issues, as well as to the concept of Art Deco itself. It highlights the slipperiness of Art Deco yet points to its potential to shed new light on the complexities of modernity.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Migration and the Making of North American Art Deco
1 The Legacy of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the Formation of North American Deco: Academic and Social Tenets and their interpretations
Isabelle Gournay
2 The Cormier Residence in Relief
Aliki Economides
3 European Immigrant Designers and North American Art Deco
Laura McGuire
4 Art Deco at Chicago’s 1933-34 Century of Progress International Exposition
Lisa D. Schrenk
Part Two Art Deco and Public Culture
5 Revisiting Art Deco in the UK
Anne Massey
6 Art Deco and Sound Cinema
Charles O’Brien
7 Art Deco and the Fashioning of Radio Spaces
Michael Windover
8 Art Deco Medicine
Annmarie Adams
Part Three Fusing Art and Fashion
9 Haute Couture and the Art Deco Exhibition of 1925: A Turning Point
Mary Lynn Stewart
10 Fashion and a DIY culture of textiles during the Art Deco Period
Alla Myzelev
11 On the Scent of Art Deco: Designing Perfumes
Tag Gronberg
Part Four The Politics of Art Deco
12 Art Deco and Empire: The Residential Architecture of Ballardie, Thompson and
Matthews
Swati Chattopadhyay
13 Art Deco, modernity and the politics of ornament in South African architecture, 1930-
1940
Federico Freschi
14 Powerful Dragons and Radiant Suns: Art Deco and Japanese Militarism
Kendall Brown
15 Art Deco and the Other
Edward Denison
Part Five History, Conservation, and Reincarnation
16 Conserving "Modest" Moderne Housing: 1930s Apartment Buildings in Canada
Susan M. Ross
17 The Evolution and Role of Art Deco Societies and World Congresses in the Preservation and Popularization of Art Deco
Sandra Cohen-Rose
18 Art Deco and Cinema – Yesterday and Today
Lucy Fischer
19 From Poirot to Bioshock: Art Deco in the age of mediatization
Bridget Elliott
Biography
Scholarly interest in Art Deco has grown rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines. This volume provides a guide to the current state of the field of Art Deco research by highlighting past accomplishments and promising new directions. Chapters are presented in five sections based on key concepts: migration, public culture, fashion, politics, and Art Deco’s afterlife in heritage restoration and new media. The book provides a range of perspectives on and approaches to these issues, as well as to the concept of Art Deco itself. It highlights the slipperiness of Art Deco yet points to its potential to shed new light on the complexities of modernity.
"...The essays are wide-ranging and thought-provoking. ... The collection looks at decoration, fashion, even perfume, but is strongest on architecture."
--C20 Magazine
