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Ocean liners : glamour, speed and style

Title
Ocean liners : glamour, speed and style / edited by Daniel Finamore and Ghislaine Wood.
Publication
London : V&A Publishing ; Salem, Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Finamore, Daniel, 1961-
  • Wood, Ghislaine
  • Peabody Essex Museum, organizer.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, organizer.
Description
288 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm
Summary
Ocean Liners became floating cities for those lucky enough to travel in an era before commercial flight was widely affordable. This book explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel, from grand Victorian barges to luxurious Art Deco floating palaces and sleek Modernist post-war liners. The shift in passenger from those driven to immigrate, often by necessity, to the wealthy leisure traveller led to rapid transformations in promotion, architecture, interior design and even the engineering of the ships themselves, as companies and countries completed to provide the most luxurious, safest and fastest liners possible. Dan 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. Exhibition: The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA (20.05-15.10.2017).
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Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-282) and index.
Call Number
JQF 17-1299
ISBN
  • 9781851779062
  • 185177906X
  • 9781851779246
  • 1851779248
OCLC
988006181
Title
Ocean liners : glamour, speed and style / edited by Daniel Finamore and Ghislaine Wood.
Publisher
London : V&A Publishing ; Salem, Massachusetts Peabody Essex Museum, 2017.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-282) and index.
Added Author
Finamore, Daniel, 1961- editor.
Wood, Ghislaine, editor.
Peabody Essex Museum, organizer.
Victoria and Albert Museum, organizer.
Research Call Number
JQF 17-1299
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