A Modern World American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920-1950 John Stuart Gordon, Sandy Isenstadt, Keely Orgeman, Emily M. Orr, Pan Wendt, Justin Woo, Diane C. Wright

The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. "A Modern World" provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. The catalogue features a mix of high-style decorative arts, industrial design, and everyday objects, including furniture by Paul T. Frankl, handwrought sterling silver, Ruth Reeves textiles, mass-produced Revere housewares, and costume jewellery. The authors consider modernism broadly, establishing a context for the objects within larger international developments in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture. Entries are arranged in a series of chronological, thematic groups, offering new and compelling juxtapositions. Each group is introduced by an essay that presents the social, ideological, and aesthetic themes that unify the objects.

John Stuart Gordon is Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery.

"[An] elegant, substantial volume . . . exceptionally rich in content . . . imaginatively conceived . . . a refreshing, authoritative account of American modern design."--K. L./i>--K. L. Ames "Choice "