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Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference

By: Kirkham, Pat (Ed)Contributor(s): Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and CultureLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2000 ISBN: 0300255985Subject(s): Women designers--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions | Design--United States--History--20th century--ExhibitionsGeneral note: Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.Online resources: [A&AePortal (Yale University Press)]
Contents:
Prologue : American women in the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham, Sara A. Lichtman, and Eileen Boris -- Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference / Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker -- Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Wendy Kaplan -- The sacred hoop : Native American women designers / Pamela Kladzyk -- ""Three strikes against me"" : African American women designers / Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth -- ""Wellpaying self support"" : women textile designers in the USA / Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen -- Tradition and transformation : women quilt designers / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Women fashioning American fashion / Valerie Steele -- Women jewelry designers / Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham -- Women metalsmiths / Jeannine Falino -- Designing Hollywood : women costume and production designers / Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham -- In ""A man's world"" : women industrial designers / Ella Howard and Eric Setliff -- Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers / Edward S. Cooke Jr. -- ""A woman's place ... ""? : women interior designers -- 1900-1950 / Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke -- 1950-2000 / Judith B. Gura -- Women landscape designers / Leslie Rose Close -- ""Quietly fine""/Quietly subversive : women ceramic designers / Cheryl Buckley -- Colophon : women graphic designers / Ellen Lupton.
Summary: Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: This volume celebrates the contribution that female designers made to American culture over the last century in such fields as ceramics, textiles, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American and African American cultures, the post-World War II era, craft and ""ethnic"" revivals in the 1970s and 1980s, and the world of today, including Eva Zeisel, Maria Martinez, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Edith Head, Clare McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Elsa Peretti, and April Greiman, as well as less well-known designers.Summary: 2021"
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Prologue : American women in the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham, Sara A. Lichtman, and Eileen Boris -- Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference / Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker -- Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Wendy Kaplan -- The sacred hoop : Native American women designers / Pamela Kladzyk -- ""Three strikes against me"" : African American women designers / Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth -- ""Wellpaying self support"" : women textile designers in the USA / Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen -- Tradition and transformation : women quilt designers / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Women fashioning American fashion / Valerie Steele -- Women jewelry designers / Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham -- Women metalsmiths / Jeannine Falino -- Designing Hollywood : women costume and production designers / Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham -- In ""A man's world"" : women industrial designers / Ella Howard and Eric Setliff -- Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers / Edward S. Cooke Jr. -- ""A woman's place ... ""? : women interior designers -- 1900-1950 / Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke -- 1950-2000 / Judith B. Gura -- Women landscape designers / Leslie Rose Close -- ""Quietly fine""/Quietly subversive : women ceramic designers / Cheryl Buckley -- Colophon : women graphic designers / Ellen Lupton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume celebrates the contribution that female designers made to American culture over the last century in such fields as ceramics, textiles, graphics, furniture, interiors, metalwork, fashion and jewelry. It includes designers from the arts and crafts and modernist movements, Native American and African American cultures, the post-World War II era, craft and ""ethnic"" revivals in the 1970s and 1980s, and the world of today, including Eva Zeisel, Maria Martinez, Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Edith Head, Clare McCardell, Bonnie Cashin, Elsa Peretti, and April Greiman, as well as less well-known designers.

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