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Author Rapaport, Brooke Kamin.

Title Vital forms : American art and design in the atomic age, 1940-1960 / Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Kevin L. Stayton with contributions by Paul Boyer ... [et al.].

Imprint New York : Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with H.N. Abrams, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  709.73074 R18v 2001    ---  Available
Description 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Note Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, and four other institutions between Oct. 12, 2001 and June 29, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and (p. 246-247) and index.
Contents United States, 1941-1963 : a historical overview / Paul Boyer -- Greater mystery of things : aspects of vital forms in American art / Brooke Kamin Rapaport -- Building organic form : architecture, ceramics, glass, and metal in the 1940s and 1950s / Martin Filler -- From Futurama to Motorama / Mildred Friedman -- Organic glitz : designing popular culture in the postwar era / Karal Ann Marling.
Subject Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Form (Aesthetics) -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Stayton, Kevin.
Brooklyn Museum of Art.
ISBN 0810906198 (hardcover)
9780810906198 (hardcover)
0872731456 (pbk.)
9780872731455 (pbk.)
Standard No. UKM bA1W1396
NLGGC 216845017
YDXCP 1815769
YDXCP 1788625

 
    
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