Main entry:

Rapaport, Brooke Kamin.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with H.N. Abrams, ©2001.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and (pages 246-247) and index.
The United States, 1941-1963 : a historical overview / Paul Boyer -- The 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.
Also includes contributions by Martin Filler, Mildred Friedman and Karal Ann Marling.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"From the TWA Terminal to Cadillac tail fins to paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a groundbreaking period for the arts in America. World War II ushered in an era of unprecedented destruction and the frightening promise of atomic power, and artists and designers responded with creations that emphasized the human body and living forms - reconfiguring what was now imperiled." "This illustrated volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, presents the work of artists, architects, and designers alongside historical photographs and period advertisements. The essays in Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960 examine fine art and commercial design of the 1940s and 1950s from an interdisciplinary perspective."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0810906198 (hardcover)
9780810906198 (hardcover)
0872731456 (pbk.)
9780872731455 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.
Form (Aesthetics) Exhibitions.
Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.
Forme (Esthétique) Expositions.
Art, American
Form (Aesthetics)
Kunst.
Vormgeving.
ARTE EUA.
DESIGN EUA.
Art Etats-Unis 20e siècle Catalogues d'exposition.
Design États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.
Architecture États-Unis Catalogues d'exposition.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Stayton, Kevin.
Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218132
Call No.: N6512 .R3 2001
Status: Available