20th Century Design & Influence

A Harvard style bibliography that includes sources on materials, research, processed, concepts and other interesting bits.

Battersby, M. 1988. The Decorative Twenties. Watson-Guptill

Bayer, P.  1999. Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties. Thames & Hudson

Berg,T. & Brohan,T. 1994. Avant-garde design 1880-1930. Tashen

Brunette, P. & Wills, D. 1994. Deconstruction & the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Brunhammer, Y.  1984. The Art Deco Style. Wiley-Academy

Collins, M. and Papadakis, A. 1990. Post-Modern Design. University of Michigan: Academy Editions

Coppel, S.  1995. Linocuts of the Machine Age. Scolar Press

Darton, M.  1990. Art Deco: An Illustrated Guide to the Decorative Style 1920-40. Tiger Publishing

Duncan, A.  1986. American Art Deco. Harry N Abrams

Duncan, A.  1988. Encyclopædia of Art Deco. Headline Book Publishing

Duncan, A.  1992. Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers. Thames and Hudson

Ehrlich, D. 1991. The Bauhaus. Bdd Promotional Book Co

Freschi,F. 1994. Big Business Beautility: The Old Mutual Building, Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts. 20: 38–57

Freschi.F. 1997. Art Deco, Modernism and modernity in Johannesburg: the case for Obel and Obel’s ‘Astor Mansions’.  De Arte. 55: 21–35.

Forty, A. 1986. Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750. Michigan: Pantheon Books

Goodall,P. 1983. Design and Gender. Block. 9:50-61

Heskett,J. 1980. Industrial Design. Oxford University Press

Hopkins, D. 2004. Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction. USA: Oxford University Press

Jencks, C.  1986. What is Post-Modernism? London: Academy Editions

Jencks, C.  1987. The Language of Post Modern Architecture. London: Academy Editions

Livingston,M. (ed). 1990. Pop Art: a continuing theory. London: Tate Gallery Publishing

Lothian Small de Beucken, J. 1962. Cezanne: A Pictorial Biography. The Viking Press

Lupton, E. 2000. The ABC’s of [triangle square circle]: The Bauhaus & Design Theory. Princeton Architectural Press

Lucie-Smith, E. 1980. Art in the Seventies. Cornell University Press

McMillian, E.  2004. Deco & Streamline Architecture in L.A: A Moderne City Survey. Schiffer Publishing

Martin, M. 1968. Futurist Art and Theory, 1909-1915. Clarendon Press

Naylor, G. 1985. The Bauhaus Reassessed:  Sources and Design Theory. The Herbert Press

Papadakis, A. 1988. Deconstruction in Architecture. London: Academy Editions

Papadakis, A.D. 1981. From Futurism to Rationalism. Academy Editions Ltd

Pevsner, N. and Weston, R. 2011. Pioneers of Modern Design. Palazzo Editions

Short,R. 1985. Dada and Surrealism. Book Sales

Sparke, P. 2004. An Introduction to Design and Culture: 1900 to the present. London: Routledge.

Sparke, P. 1993. The Plastics Age: From Bakelite to Beanbags and Beyond. Woodstock, N.Y.:Overlook Press.

Sparke, P. 1987. Design in Context. London: Bloomsbury.

Tschichold, J. and McLean, R. 2006. The New Typography. University of California Press

Van Zantern, D. 1989. The Architecture of Robert Venturi. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press

Wallis, J. 1989. Modern Dreams: The Rise & Fall & Rise of Pop. MIT Press

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