British Modern; Author: Heller, Steven; Author: Fili, Louise; Paperback

Author: Heller, Steven; Author: Fili, Louise
Paperback; 150 Colour and 50 B&w Illustrations
132 pages
Published: May 1998
Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0811813118
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An essential resource for graphic artists, designers, and anyone interested in advertising or art history, BRITISH MODERN contains over 200 reproductions of classic Art Deco work from the '20s, '30s, and early '40s. RAF posters, cigarette packages, VOGUE magazine covers, ads for London nightclubs, and many other examples of Deco style present a novel portrait of English life in the first half of the 20th century. Over 230 color images.With striking color illustrations on nearly every page displaying magazine covers to advertisements for the London underground, Heller (senior art editor, The New York Times ) and designer Fili analyze the surge in British graphic arts in the Art Deco period from the 1920s to the early 1940s. No ind