Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style - Hardcover

Ghislain, Daniel Finamore

 
9781851779062: Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 185177906X ISBN 13: 9781851779062
Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Curated by Daniel Finamore and Ghislaine Wood, “Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style examines the cultural complexity of the great age of ocean liners, from the mid-1800s through the postwar era.” (Antiques and the Arts)

The golden age of ocean liners is inextricably linked with the key decorative trends of the 20th century—Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism. This lavish visual feast explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural, and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel, considering all aspects of the ocean liner experience, from the striking marketing images, aspirational booking offices, and landmark headquarters of the major shipping companies to the ships’ opulent interiors and triumphs of engineering. The lavish fashions required for a crossing are also explored, along with the evolution of the ships’ social and public spaces, as once-rigid class structures and attitudes became relaxed.

Closing the book is an exploration of the impact of the ocean liner on the wider art and design world—an icon of modernity that influenced everyone from the Futurists to Le Corbusier.

Includes color illustrations

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel Finamore is Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Ghislaine Wood is deputy director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.

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The golden age of ocean liners is inextricably linked with the key decorative trends of the 20th century Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Modernism. This lavish visual feast explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural, and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel, considering all aspects of the ocean liner experience, from the striking marketing images, aspirational booking offices, and landmark headquarters of the major shipping companies to the ships opulent interiors and triumphs of engineering. The fashions required for a crossing are also explored, along with the evolution of the ships social and public spaces, as once-rigid class structures and attitudes became relaxed. Closing the book is an exploration of the impact of the ocean liner on the wider art and design world an icon of modernity that influenced everyone from the Futurists to Le Corbusier.

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Verlag
Abrams & Chronicle Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
185177906X
ISBN 13 
9781851779062
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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