George Nakashima and the Modernist Moment
Bucks County, Pennsylvania: James A. Michener Art Museum, 2001.
Paperback.
From Beyer’s introduction: “An exhibition that aims to recontextualize the work of George Nakashima within the practice of European (mid-century) modernism. Long accepted as one of the main forces in the American craft movement, Nakashima has historically been viewed by the American design community as a hermetic designer who focused on a sentimental notion about nature. By reevaluating the designer from a European perspective, using the works of Finn Juhl, Carlo Mollino, Alexandre Noll, Charlotte Perriand, Gio Ponti, and Jean Prouve, this exhibition demonstrates that Nakashima is an important figure in international modernism and, in the process, reexamines the monolithic notion of modernism as an exclusively industrial form.”
The work of the seven artists shown here collectively exemplifies not only the functionality typical of the modernist form, but of its aesthetic principles.
Item #901252ISBN: 187963614X
6 x 9-3/8", stiff pictorial wrappers, 80pp, illus. with 40pp of color plates, biographies, checklist, lenders.
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Price: $70.00