Main entry:

Schleuning, Sarah, author, writer of introduction.

Title & Author:

Electrifying design : a century of lighting / Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss ; with contributions by Sarah Marie Horne, Martha MacLeod, and Berry Lowden Perkins.

Publication:

Houston : The Museum of Fine Arts ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.
©2021

Description:

xi, 206 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 14-May 16, 2021, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 19-September 12, 2021.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-201) and index.
Director's foreword / Gary Tinterow -- Introduction / Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss -- Timeline / Sarah Marie Horne -- Typologies / Cindi Strauss -- Poul Henningsen / Cindi Strauss -- The Museum of Modern Art's lamp design competition and New lamps exhibition, 1950-51 / Cindi Strauss -- The naked bulb as inspiration / Sarah Schleuning -- Ingo Maurer / Sarah Schleuning -- Awards for lighting design / Cindi Strauss -- Gino Sarfatti / Cindi Strauss -- Quality of light / Sarah Schleuning.

Exhibitions:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from February 14-May 16, 2021 and at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from June 19-September 12, 2021.

Summary:

Offering a comprehensive history of lighting design from the 20th and 21st centuries, Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting explores how lighting has been integral to the development of modern design both in terms of aesthetics and technological advances. This book outlines the key aspects of lighting as a unique and creative artistic discipline and examines themes such as different typologies, the quality of light, and the evolution of the bulb. A series of essays by Sarah Schleuning and Cindi Strauss showcase lighting designs from different time periods and geographic locations and feature the work of significant figures, including Poul Henningsen, Ingo Maurer, and Gino Sarfatti. With over 130 illustrations of functional-and sometimes fantastical-designs, a historical timeline, and comprehensive artist biographies, this volume expands our understanding of an understudied but influential art form and demonstrates lighting's central role as both an expression of and a catalyst for innovations in modern and contemporary design. --From publisher description.

ISBN:

9780300254570 (hardcover)
0300254571 (hardcover)

Subject:

Lighting Exhibitions.
Electric lighting Exhibitions.
Electric lamps Exhibitions.
Electric lamps Design and construction Exhibitions.
Lighting, Architectural and decorative Exhibitions.
Éclairage Expositions.
Lampes électriques Expositions.
Éclairage électrique Expositions.
Electric lamps
Lighting
Lighting, Architectural and decorative
Electric lamps Design Exhibitions.
Lighting, Architectural and decorative Design Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Strauss, Cindi, author, curator, writer of introduction.
Horne, Sarah Marie, contributor.
MacLeod, Martha, contributor.
Perkins, Berry Lowden, contributor.
Tinterow, Gary, writer of foreword.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution, issuing body.
High Museum of Art, host institution.

Century of lighting

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309700
Call No.: BIB 254896
Status: Available