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Boom : art and design in the 1940s /

"'Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s' looks at the complex shifts in technology and the arts, including music, film, and fashion, that surged in a tumultuous decade. Despite restrictions and hardships, the visual arts flourished, with some artists addressing political concerns in their...

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Other Authors: McDonald, Alison (Art publishing director) (Editor), Smith, Jessica Todd (Editor, Contributor), Bock, Amanda N. (Contributor), Blum, Dilys, 1947- (Contributor), Agro, Elisabeth R. (Contributor), Suda, Alexandra (Contributor), Burns, Ken (Contributor), Palmer, Alexandra, 1957- (Contributor), De Waal, Edmund (Contributor), Rea, Steven (Contributor), McBride, Christian (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025.
Subjects:
Art, American > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Design > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Nineteen forties > Exhibitions.
Art américain > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Design > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Années quarante (Vingtième siècle) > Expositions.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's statement / Sasha Suda
  • A Look at the 1940s / Jessica Todd Smith
  • The war : a conversation with Ken Burns
  • The poems of Anna Akhmatova / Isabella Szyfer
  • Cultural renegades : a conversation with Christian McBride
  • Queer connectivity / Lily F. Scott
  • Fashion during wartime / Alexandra Palmer
  • Hollywood in the 1940s / Steven Rea
  • The economics of war / Frederic Murphy
  • Fragments of lost histories : a conversation with Edmund de Waal
  • Witness to war : Margaret Bourke-White on the Eastern Front / Amanda N. Bock
  • "Needles and guns" : Elsa Schiaparelli and America / Dilys Blum
  • Unseeable things : war, technology, photography / Amanda N. Bock
  • Art in the home : painting by the yard / Dilys Blum
  • Make it do : American modernist jewelry / Elisabeth Agro
  • From war to peace : Horace Pippin on the home front / Jessica Todd Smith
  • George Nakashima : synthesis and identity / Elisabeth Agro
  • Genesis : Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner / Jessica Todd Smith.