Research Catalog

Title

Modernism in American silver : 20th century design / by Jewel Stern ; edited by Kevin W. Tucker and Charles L. Venable.

Author

Stern, Jewel

Publication

Dallas, Tex. : Dallas Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dallas Museum of Art.
• Nevada Museum of Art
• Renwick Gallery.
• Tucker, Kevin W.
• Venable, Charles L. (Charles Lane), 1960-

Description

392 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.

Subject

• Design > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > Influence > Exhibitions
• Modernism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
• Silverwork > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C., Sept. 16, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006, the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Feb. 11-May 14, 2006, the Dallas Museum of Art, June 18-Sept. 24, 2006, and at 2 other locations through July 15, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-384) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Director's foreword and acknowledgements / John R. Lane -- Author's acknowledgements / Jewel Stern -- Dallas's passion for silver : an introduction / Charles L. Venable -- Modernism in American silver / Jewel Stern -- Pt. 1. Modernism in America, 1925-1950 -- Ch. 1. Art Moderne comes to America -- Ch. 2. Department stores advance modern design in the 1920s -- Ch. 3. New styles for a new age -- Ch. 4. Museum exhibitions, 1929-1931 -- Ch. 5. Depression : a sobering reality -- Ch. 6. Styles of the 1930s -- Ch. 7. Novelties and necessities -- Ch. 8. exhibitions continue, 1937-1940 -- Ch. 9. World War II : the silver industry on the home front -- Pt. 2. new look in silver, 1950-2000 -- Ch. 10. Free form design in the 1950s -- Ch. 11. Mixing silver with other materials, 1950-1970 -- Ch. 12. Innovation : the Reed & Barton design program -- Ch. 13. Space age silver -- Ch. 14. Exhibition silver in the 1950s and 1960s -- Ch. 15. sea of change, 1960s-1980s -- Ch. 16. final flourish, 1980-2000 -- Conclusion : silver at the dawn of new century -- Forging the modern : beyond industry / Kevin W. Tucker.

ISBN

030010927X

LCCN

^^2005927185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library