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This series aims to combine a compact, commercial approach with the breadth and clarity of larger format books. Covering art which both creates the foundation of modern culture and modern art itself, the books include International Arts and Crafts, Turner, Whistler, Monet, and the Art Deco movement.
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Alice Jurow has degrees in Aesthetic Studies and Architecture form the
University of California. The editor of The Sophisticate: Journal of the
Art Deco Society of California since 1996, she is a longtime aficionado
of the aesthetic movements of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries. She is currently working on a book based on her popular
lecture, 'The Androgynous Dandy: An Art Deco Icon', and lives in
Berkeley, California, with her husband and two sons.
Camilla de la Bédoyère is a researcher, writer and journalist who
has a special interest in modern art and design, particularly the Art
Deco era. She is a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers and
has written numerous educational books for children, non-fiction titles
for adults and learning materials for visitors to the Natural History
Museum. She is also the author of World's Greatest Art: Art Deco and Louis Comfort Tiffany: Masterworks.
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This series aims to combine a compact, commercial approach with the breadth and clarity of larger format books. Covering art which both creates the foundation of modern culture and modern art itself, the books include International Arts and Crafts, Turner, Whistler, Monet, and the Art Deco movement.
