Art Deco style is everywhere, from travel posters to furniture, fine art to design. This new edition offers an introduction to this classic aesthetic. Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration, this gorgeous new book features fascinating text on the movement in general, fashion and advertising, accompanied by beautiful reproductions of work by talents such as Barbier, Erté, Cassandre and Colin. Sympathetic examples of other forms of Art Deco are also included. AUTHOR: Janet Stiles Tyson is an independent researcher, writer and lecturer in histories of visual and material culture. A native of the U.S. state of Michigan, she holds Masters degrees in Art History and Studio Art and entered the MPhil program at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2017. She lives in England for much of the year now, and and focuses her research on an eighteenth-century botanical text called 'A Curious Herbal'. 84 colour illustrations
