Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference /
This volume celebrates the contribution that female designers made to American culture over the last century in such fields as ceramics, textiles, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American a...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2002.
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This volume celebrates the contribution that female designers made to American culture over the last century in such fields as ceramics, textiles, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American and African American cultures, the post-World War II era, craft and “ethnic” revivals in the 1970s and 1980s, and the world of today, including Eva Zeisel, Maria Martinez, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Edith Head, Clare McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Elsa Peretti, and April Greiman, as well as less well-known designers. |
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| Item Description: | Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 pages) : 454 illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300255980 0300255985 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on August 25, 2020). |