Readings Flashcards
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Culture and Comfort
By Grier
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- parlor furniture, how it is constructed and upholestried
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Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America
Kenneth L. Ames
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- Importance of the Hallway in Victorian houses
- 2 Different Types of Hallways: Georgian Victorian Hall, hall as passage, home as palace. Or: Hall was passage into large iving space, home old homestead
- Objects: Hall Stand-four component :mirror hooks, umbrella stand, small table, pegs; hall chair, card receiever
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The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America : Things American : Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era
By Trask
The Art of Living
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- 1924, american wing, Robert de Forest, gift from him and wife, kent and de forest-influence public taste
- Halsey met curator, american, “the art of living
- met’s presentation of american history, wide reaching conequences for coningn narrative, flatten social conflict, only lite objects depicted
- period rooms
- american wing only orivate funding , financial independce, freedom to do whatever they wanted, only best example,
- met collecting, american furniture prices skyrocketed
- very narrow view of america
- flattening of regional differences to look more united Art of Living,
- process of colonial life, better civiliztion, narrative going through period rooms
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In the Pursuit of Beauty Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
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The Decoration of Houses
BY Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.
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- housign interiors, historical, how the elite live is mimicked in the upper class a generation after
- Italien nobles, open air lives, english and french more private interior spaces
- Louis XIV- modern domestic life began in interiors
- good architecture and decotating have a rhythem and go together
- great style-proportion
- purpose and intentionin design
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The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany
By: Martin Eidelberg and Alice Frelinghuysen
alliance of arts and crafts
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- Clare Driscoll, one of leading designers
- not many prelimanry drawings and watercolors survive
- different stages, special commsions usually based on popular forms
- Tiffany signature, mark of approval
- each worker small part of bigger scheme
- more industrial art in the literal sense than arts and crafts
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Arts and
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The Industrial Design Reader
BY: Carma Forman
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The Machine Age
Richard Guy Wilson
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- rapid new technology, 1920s-30s
- PAris exposotionin 1920s
- department stores , important in showing new styles
- Donald Deskey, early modern, using new materials, admiration for bauhaus
- Frankl-promoter of modern design and art
- cubism influence
- Aero and hydro dynamic design, even if unneccessary
- industrial design linked with streamlining
- new metal and technologies used
- changing social habits=new forms
- limitless future potential with machines, postive and negative
- 1939 NYC World of Tomorrow, fair
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Alfred H. Barr
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- Three Aesthetic principles: 1.emphasis upon volume (space enclosed by thin panes of glass), 2. regularity as opposed to symmetry or other kinds of obvious balance 3. dependence on intrinsic elegance of materials, techincal perfection and fine proportions
- Functionalism- very important, exaggeration of this idea
- 19th c revival styles, nothing new, why peopel rejected modernism at first, no one dominant style
- America new style emerged first before WWI, with people like Wright
- Walter Gropius in Germany, Le Corbusier-huge influence, german
- american functionalism , commodity like ornament
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Livable Modernism
BY Kristina Wilson
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- Gilbert Rhode, George Sakier, Lurelle Gund, Herman Miller
- Simplified aesthetic could facilate an enlightened lifestyle, but also by its respect fr the physical and psychological comforts of the user
- Advanced but not too advanced
- Hygiene, lightweight cleanable furniture
- Modular designs, smaller spaces, living rooms
- still maintaiing classic deisigns, like displaying of china
- self-expression through design
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