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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Virginia Grace St. George. Forms in modernism. New York : Watson-Guptill, 2005 (OCoLC)608575385 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Virginia Grace St George Smith |
ISBN: | 0823056244 9780823056248 |
OCLC Number: | 60560472 |
Description: | 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Typography's role in modernism -- Early European modernism -- The Bauhaus -- Dueling modernisms -- Native and imported forms -- Mid-century modern -- The end of the modern movement -- American heroic. |
Responsibility: | Virginia Smith. |
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Abstract:
More than just a book designed to prove a thesis, 'Forms in Modernism' provides an interesting visual journey through the styles of the first half of the last century.
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by tyleralterman updated 2010-09-09