Main entry:

Kahr, Joan, 1939-

Title & Author:

Edgar Brandt : master of art deco ironwork / Joan Kahr.

Publication:

New York : Abrams, 1999.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235) and index.
Foreword / Francois Brandt -- Nineteenth-Century Ironwork: Emile Robert Relights the Fire -- Childhood and Schooling -- Life at Vierzon: Edgar Brandt's Training -- The Seeds of a Philosophy -- 1900: A Career Begins -- To See and Be Seen: The Salon Exhibitions -- The Weld That Held: The Oxyacetylene Torch -- Iron of a Different Kind -- 101 Boulevard Murat -- The War Memorials -- Progress Comes with Peace: Forging Art in the Early 1920s -- Japonisme and Other Motifs -- Two Sides of the Drawing Board: 1923-1924 -- The Exposition of 1925: Background -- Beaucoup Brandt: Everywhere at the Fair -- Brandt's Stand: A Treasury of Fer Forge -- Works in Bronze: Vessels and Serpents -- La Galerie Edgar Brandt -- American Exposure -- The Canadian Connection -- Back in Paris: 1926 -- The Denouement -- Change Is in the Air -- The Close of the Decade -- Into the Future -- The Legacy.

Summary:

Edgar Brandt: Master of Art Deco Ironwork is the first book to document the life and work of the premier metalsmith of the twentieth century. A member of a group of extraordinary artist-craftsmen that included Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Jean Puiforcat, and Jean Dunand, among others, Edgar Brandt (1880-1960) was a leading force during a period of great achievement in French decorative arts and design, creating an entirely new aesthetic for the medium of wrought iron.
Joan Kahr, the leading authority on Brandt, draws on extensive interviews with Brandt's family and former colleagues as well as period accounts culled from the art and design press of the day. She explores Brandt's multifaceted career as a talented artist, pioneering ironsmith, influential designer, and successful entrepreneur, detailing how he fused traditional hand forging with industrial methods and new technology - such as oxy-acetylene welding, power hammering, and die stamping - to make the incomparable objects in his repertoire.

ISBN:

0810940035 (hardcover)
9780810940031 (hardcover)

Subject:

Brandt, Edgar, 1880-1960.
Brandt, Edgar 1880-1960
Brandt, Edgar.
Artist-blacksmiths France Biography.
Ironwork France History 20th century.
Decoration and ornament Art deco.
Ferronniers d'art France Biographies.
Ferronnerie France Histoire 20e siècle.
Décoration et ornement Art déco.
Artist-blacksmiths.
Ironwork.
Bildband
IJzerwerk.
Art deco.
France.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202138
Call No.: NK44.B821 K3 1999
Status: Available