ART DECO SCULPTURE

This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative verna cular defined loosely today as `Art Deco'. Whether designed as free-standing statuary for the domestic market or commissioned for so me form of architectural placement, as a frieze on a building's facade or as a public monument or pool fountain, the works shown dem onstrate a sometimes bewilderingly broad range of styles and stylistic influences: from the chevrons, sunbursts, maidens, fountains, floral ...[Llegir més]