Title & Author:

Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference : Jacqueline M. Atkins [and others] / Pat Kirkham, ed.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press ; New York : in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, 2000.

Description:

462 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture from Nov. 15, 2000 to Feb. 25, 2001.
Hardcover published December 2000, paperback published January 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-450) and index.
Prologue: American women in the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham, Sara A. Lichtman, and Eileen Boris -- Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000: diversity and difference / Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker -- Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Wendy Kaplan -- The sacred hoop: Native American women designers / Pamela Kladzyk -- "Three strikes against me": African American women designers / Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth -- "Wellpaying self support": women textile designers in the USA / Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen -- Tradition and transformation: women quilt designers / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Women fashioning American fashion / Valerie Steele -- Women jewelry designers / Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham -- Women metalsmiths / Jeannine Falino -- Designing Hollywood: women costume and production designers / Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham -- In "A man's world": women industrial designers / Ella Howard and Eric Setliff -- Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers / Edward S. Cooke Jr. -- "A woman's place ... "?: women interior designers -- 1900-1950 / Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke -- 1950-2000 / Judith B. Gura -- Women landscape designers / Leslie Rose Close -- "Quietly fine"/Quietly subversive: women ceramic designers / Cheryl Buckley -- Colophon: women graphic designers / Ellen Lupton.

Summary:

This stunning book celebrates the many contributions of women designers to twentieth-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, the book features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.

ISBN:

0300087349 (hardcover)
9780300087345 (hardcover)
0300093314 (paperback)
9780300093315 (paperback)

Subject:

Design United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Women designers United States Exhibitions.
Women designers United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Femmes designers États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Femmes designers États-Unis Expositions.
Design
Women designers
Ontwerpers.
Vrouwen.
United States

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Kirkham, Pat.
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215028
Call No.: NK1404 .W66 2000
Status: Available