Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility
    Unavailable
    Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility
    Unavailable
    Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility
    Ebook594 pages7 hours

    Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility

    By Michael Windover

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    This book argues that mobility is the central theme of the interwar mode of design known today as Art Deco. It is present on the very surfaces of Art Deco objects and architecture in iconography and general formal qualities (whether the zigzag rectilinear forms popular in the 1920s or curvilinear streamlining of the 1930s). By focussing on mobility as a means of tying the seemingly disparate qualities of Art Deco together, Michael Windover shows how the surface-level expressions correspond as well with underpinning systems of mobility, including those associated with migration, transportation, commodity exchange, capital, and communication.Journeying across the globe from a skyscraper in Vancouver, B.C., to a department store in Los Angeles, and from super-cinemas in Bombay (Mumbai) to radio cabinets in Canadian living rooms this richly illustrated book examines the reach of Art Deco as it affected public cultures. Windover's innovative perspective exposes some of the socio-political consequences of this “mode of mobility” and offers some reasons as to how and why Art Deco was incorporated into everyday lifestyles around the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPresses de l'Universite du Quebec
    Release dateSep 1, 2012
    ISBN9782760535145
    Unavailable
    Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility

    Related to Art Deco

    Related ebooks

    Architecture For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      No/98 Cover To Cover

      Feb 18, 2019

      No/98 Cover To Cover
      2 min read

    • Article

      Greg Durrell: Design Canada

      Mar 10, 2019

      Greg Durrell: Design Canada
      4 min read

    • Article

      City of Light

      Mar 8, 2019

      City of Light
      5 min read

    • Article

      Underground Issues

      Sep 8, 2023

      Underground Issues
      2 min read

    • Article

      Detail, Connection And Experience

      May 6, 2020

      I first met John Wardle in the early 2000s when I visited his office soon after beginning my career in architectural publishing with Artichoke magazine. John Wardle Architects (JWA) had recently moved into a smart new studio space in Bogle and Banfie

      5 min read

    • Article

      Read

      Jun 13, 2019

      At over 700 pages, this tome is the most up-to-date catalogue of the work of Japan’s Tadao Ando, the only architect to have won the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale and Kyoto prizes. Following an extended introductory essay by TASCHEN regular

      4 min read

    • Article

      2019 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival

      Apr 3, 2019

      With possibly the most compelling line-up to date, the annual Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival gives you every reason to hole up inside the cinema for its entire run. The masters – Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano, Richard Neutra and Mies va

      2 min read

    • Article

      Future Indigeneity

      Mar 9, 2020

      When I graduated in the late 1990s as the first Indigenous woman from Queensland to complete an architecture degree, the pace of Indigenous recognition in Australia seemed slow in comparison to international shifts. Renzo Piano Building Workshop had

      7 min read

    • Article

      There And back Again

      Jan 5, 2023

      There And back Again
      3 min read

    • Article

      Favour The Brave

      Jan 2, 2020

      Favour The Brave
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Parthenon, Melbourne-style

      Dec 13, 2022

      The Parthenon, Melbourne-style
      3 min read

    • Article

      Pioneros

      Nov 20, 2018

      Históricamente los pueblos y ciudades han construido sus espacios urbanos y su arquitectura. Este patrimonio edificado es el testimonio claro, visible y tangible de la evolución social de las comunidades, que además permite la lectura e interpretació

      3 min read

    • Article

      Heart Attack

      Aug 22, 2018

      Heart Attack
      4 min read

    • Article

      Aotearoa New Zealand Architecture Books, 2022

      Mar 9, 2023

      Supported by Back in 2008, when the forerunners of this current series of itineraries were published in Block: The Broadsheet of the Auckland Branch of the NZIA, Andrew Barrie and I wrote two such guides on out-of-print New Zealand architecture books

      9 min read

    • Article

      Bookshelf

      Apr 1, 2019

      Much like the projects it features, Petite Places makes the most of the space available. Featuring more than seventy projects across its 256 pages, the book traces the history of all things small living – from the egalitarian houses of the Neolithic

      3 min read

    • Article

      Lost In Space

      Jun 4, 2021

      Lost In Space
      4 min read

    • Article

      Being Human

      Mar 30, 2022

      Being Human
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Roaring Twenties

      Dec 31, 2019

      The Roaring Twenties
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hundertwasser in New Zealand – The Art of Creating Paradise

      Sep 8, 2022

      Andreas J. Hirsch, translated by Uta Hoffmann Oratia Books, August 2022 There were a few subversive little books circulating in the 1970s – Mao’s so-called Little Red Book and, of more relevance to teens, the “morally offensive” The Little Red School

      3 min read

    • Article

      A History Of Women In Design

      Feb 20, 2023

      A History Of Women In Design
      7 min read

    Reviews for Art Deco

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words