| Description |
352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
North by Midwest / Neil Harris -- Cranbrook and the search for twentieth century form / Robert Judson Clark -- The history of the Cranbrook community / Davira S. Taragin -- Eliel Saarinen and the Cranbrook tradition in architecture and urban design / David G. De Long -- Interior design and furniture / R. Craig Miller -- Metal work and bookbinding / J. David Farmer -- Textiles / Christa C. Mayer Thurman -- Ceramics / Martin Eidelberg -- Sculpture and painting / Joan Marter -- Afterword / Roy Slade -- Biographies of the artists -- Chronology / Mary Riordan and John Gerard |
| Summary |
It is difficult to imagine the story of design in America without Cranbrook-that still vital community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, whose faculty and students have encompassed world-famous architects, sculptors, weavers, designers, metalworkers, ceramists, and painters. These include the prominent architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen; the furniture and interior designers Florence Knoll and Charles and Ray Eames; designer of fine silverware and sculptor Harry Bertoia; ceramist Maija Grotell; designers Loja Saarinen and her daughter, Pipsan Saarinen Swanson; sculptor Carl Milles; and painter Zoltan Sepeshy, among others. There is hardly an art or craft, in America or abroad, that has not been influenced directly or indirectly by the Cranbrook Academy of Art. No wonder Cranbrook has been called America's democratic counterpart to that great German school, the Bauhaus. -- from book jacket |
| Analysis |
Art, Modern |
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Cranbrook Academy of Art |
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Design |
| Notes |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dec. 14, 1983-Feb. 19, 1984, and elsewhere |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Cranbrook Academy of Art -- Exhibitions.
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Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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Art, American -- 20th century.
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Art, American -- Michigan -- Bloomfield -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Bloomfield, Michigan -- Exhibitions
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Michigan -- Bloomfield -- Exhibitions
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Design -- Bloomfield, Michigan -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
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Design -- Michigan -- Bloomfield -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
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Design -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Belloli, Andrea P. A.
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Clark, Robert Judson.
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Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| LC no. |
83006343 |
| ISBN |
0810908018 |
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0870993410 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pbk.) |
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0895580977 (Detroit Institute of Arts : pbk.) |
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