Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design
From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World’s Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Museum of Art’s Jewel Stern American Silver Collection— which comprises over four hundred extraordinary works in the modern idiom—as well as other objects in the Museum’s collection, and selected pieces on loan, Modernism in American Silver is the...
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A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver designLibrary JournalPublished in association with the Dallas Museum of Art, this glorious book accompanies an exhibition currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, through January 22, 2006 (from there it will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis). Stern, an artist with a deep appreciation for 20th-century silver, uses her broad grasp of the topic and enlists her aesthetic judgment and scholarship to build an intelligent, thoughtful, comprehensive, and beautiful volume that can only expand our knowledge of and appreciation for silver-whether useful or decorative, executed in stunning, modern, austere, embellished, complex, or simple ways. Silver is featured here in perfectly placed illustrations and photographs that take the excellent text along for a visual journey through a century of artistic design, showing off its special place in modern art. This book will appeal to seasoned collectors, dealers, and silversmiths as well as readers who have not given the medium the attention it deserves. Highly recommended.-David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Director's foreword and acknowledgements8Author's acknowledgements10Dallas's passion for silver : an introduction12Modernism in American silverPt. 1Modernism in America, 1925-1950Ch. 1Art Moderne comes to America22Ch. 2Department stores advance modern design in the 1920s40Ch. 3New styles for a new age56Ch. 4Museum exhibitions, 1929-1931102Ch. 5The Depression : a sobering reality110Ch. 6Styles of the 1930s120Ch. 7Novelties and necessities150Ch. 8The exhibitions continue, 1937-1940164Ch. 9World War II : the silver industry on the home front186Pt. 2A new look in silver, 1950-2000Ch. 10Free form design in the 1950s192Ch. 11Mixing silver with other materials, 1950-1970232Ch. 12Innovation : the Reed & Barton design program242Ch. 13Space age silver254Ch. 14Exhibition silver in the 1950s and 1960s276Ch. 15A sea of change, 1960s-1980s284Ch. 16A final flourish, 1980-2000298Conclusion : silver at the dawn of new century322Forging the modern : beyond industry326
\ Library JournalPublished in association with the Dallas Museum of Art, this glorious book accompanies an exhibition currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, through January 22, 2006 (from there it will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art, the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis). Stern, an artist with a deep appreciation for 20th-century silver, uses her broad grasp of the topic and enlists her aesthetic judgment and scholarship to build an intelligent, thoughtful, comprehensive, and beautiful volume that can only expand our knowledge of and appreciation for silver-whether useful or decorative, executed in stunning, modern, austere, embellished, complex, or simple ways. Silver is featured here in perfectly placed illustrations and photographs that take the excellent text along for a visual journey through a century of artistic design, showing off its special place in modern art. This book will appeal to seasoned collectors, dealers, and silversmiths as well as readers who have not given the medium the attention it deserves. Highly recommended.-David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.\ \
