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Encyclopédie ART DECO (Book) by Pierre Cabanne. Very good condition. Some marks on the cover. 1986. Hardcover. 251 pages. Numerous black and white and color illustrations, encyclopedia of fine arts and decorative arts. Editions Somogy. French texts.
Analysis of the elements that gave birth to Art Deco in fashion, theater, cinema, posters, architecture, design. A third of the volume is devoted to a biographical dictionary of our contemporaries.
The reference work of the art critic Pierre Cabane on Art Deco, with his precious dictionaries of artists, collectors, illustrators, decorators…
Art Deco was not born from manifestos, thoughtful and deliberate decisions. It is, in a certain way, much more than that: both the style and the reflection of an era; a way of life and an atmosphere, that of the 1920s. No movement will have more intimately linked its artistic creations to the personalities of the time: Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev, Picabia, Paul Colin, Vertès, Chanel, Lanvin…