Alastair Duncan

Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, fomenting in the great cities of Europe and America and shaping everything fr...

The Art Deco movement - with its emphasis on up-to-date individualitycombined with good taste, fine materials and exquisite workmanship -became all the rage in France. Other countries produced their o...

'Comprehensive and scholarly . . . heavily illustrated in colour' - The Times 'Copiously exemplified by photographs . . . does very successfully convey the fecundity and dynamism of the movement' - T...

Styl art déco zajmuje szczególne miejsce w historii sztuki dekoracyjnej XX wieku, o czym świadczy mnogość teorii związanych z jego genezą, znaczeniem oraz siłą oddziaływania. Z uwagi na liczne, pozorn...