Designing Dreams: Modern Architecture in the Movies

Author: Donald Albrecht, Museum Of Modern Art,Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersKeywords: movies, architecture, modern, dreams, designingPages: 203Published: 1986-12Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0060550201     ISBN-13: 9780060550202Binding: Hardcover (First Edition)List Price: UnknownA thorough examination of the almost symbiotic relationship between modernist architecture and film design of the 1920s and 1930s. Albrecht traces the connections between film designers' art and its roots in European design movements, such as Art Deco and the Bauhaus. The penthouses, nightclubs, and skyscrapers that showed moviegoers a new way of living demanded a new look, which these architectural movements provided. DESIGNING DREAMS concludes with an essential chapter on The Fountainhead, modernist architecture's last fervid gasp in the movies. Illustrated with rare stills from classic films.

Humor & Entertainment

Donald Albrecht

Movies

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>A companion to a major centenary exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York showcases the acclaimed glassmaker's most noteworthy and sophisticated creations from the 1930s to the 1960s, in a photographic collection of bowls, stemware, and engraved pieces complemented by vintage photography and archive ephemera. Original.</p>

Glass + Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Harry N. Abrams

Andrée Putman

Rizzoli

The High Style of Dorothy Draper

Home Improvement & Design

The Pointed Leaf Press, Ltd.

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism is the first exhibition to look at the contribution of Jewish designers, architects, patrons, and merchants in the creation of a distinctly modern American domestic landscape. In the aftermath of World War II, the hub of world Jewry shifted from Europe to America. The exhibition looks at the cultural context in which many Jewish emigre architects and designers from Europe in the 1930-40s were welcomed and embraced into the creative communities that sprang up around the US. The story told in this exhibition gives remarkable insight into Jewish assimilation into American society. At the same time, Designing Home goes beyond a simple exploration of physical Jewish contributions to the history of modern architecture and design-an impact that continues today-to examine broader cultural and social themes.

Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism

This is the first-ever survey of American design that cuts across the four disciplines of architecture, product design, graphic design, and new media. Put together by the National Design Museum surveys the up-to-the-minute trends in American design from architecture to product and graphic design to new media. This comprehensive survey catalogs the best in architecture, interiors, environments, landscapes, products, furniture, fashion, objects, typefaces, posters, publications, film and TV graphics, and interactive media from the last three years.?Organized around a series of themes—Branded, Fluid, Local, Minimal, Narrative, Physical, Reclaimed, and Unbelievable—Design Culture Now presents projects from over 75 designers, ranging from new names to current work by established figures. Some of the people whose work is represented include graphic designers Bruce Mau and Stefan Sagemeister, style guru Martha Stewart, product designers Jonathan Ive (Apple Computer) and Tinker Hatfield (Nike), product designers Robert Egger and Moss, film set designer Dante Feretti, The Lion King director and costume, puppet, and set designer Julie Taymor, architects Neil Denari and Frank Gehry, and digital special effects designers Pixar, Digital Domain, and Industrial Light and Magic.?This exhaustive survey contains hundreds of full-color images and a groovy design by Ellen Lupton, designer of Mixing Messages.

DESIGN CULTURE NOW /ANGLAIS

Arts & Photography

Steven Skov Holt

Ellen, Lupton

Graphic Design

LAURENCE KING

<p>Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries' Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation. The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was donated to the University of Rochester by Dr. Edward Atwater. The book accompanies an exhibition of AIDS education posters displayed at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.The posters, spanning the years from 1982 to the present, show how social, religious, civic, and public health agencies have addressed the controversial, often contested terrain of the HIV/AIDS pandemic within the public realm. Organizations and creators tailored their messages to audiences, both broad and very specific, and used a wide array of strategies, employing humor, emotion, scare tactics, simple scientific explanations, sexual imagery, and many other methods to communicate powerfully and effectively.</p>

Up Against the Wall Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster

Jessica Lacher-Feldman

William M. Valenti, M.D.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

RIT Press

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