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Vital Forms: American Art in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
Vital Forms American Art in the Atomic Age 19401960
Author: Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Kevin Stayton
From the Studebaker and the Slinky(r) to the TWA terminal and paintings by Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, 1940 to 1960 was a compelling era for the arts in America. Artists and designers responded to the atomic-age anxieties of the postwar period with "vital" forms-organic imagery and biomorphic shapes based on nature. These forms proliferat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780872731455
ISBN-10: 0872731456
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Book Type: Paperback
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