ââ⢠Cooperhewitt Museum of Design Art Deco in the Jazz Age
GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION CO-ORGANIZED BY COOPER HEWITT AND THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
The first major museum exhibition to focus on American taste in blueprint during the exhilarating years of the 1920s, "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s" will debut this bound at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Co-organized by Cooper Hewitt and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the exhibition volition examine a broad spectrum of design showing the multidimensional aspect of American style in this decade. The galleries will be filled with boggling jewelry, mode, furniture, textiles, tableware, paintings, posters, wallcoverings and architecture, demonstrating the popularity of bold colors and forms that narrate this age. On view at Cooper Hewitt April 7 through Aug. 20, 2017, the Cleveland Museum of Art will present "The Jazz Historic period" from Sept. 30, 2017, through January. 14, 2018.
"Exploring the significant impact of European influences, the explosive growth of American cities, avant-garde artistic movements, new social mores and the part of technology, 'The Jazz Age' will seek to define the American spirit of the period," said Cooper Hewitt Manager Caroline Baumann. "Through an innovative interpretive presentation on the third-floor Barbara and Morton Mandel Design Gallery and a portion of the 2nd floor, the exhibition will delight the eye, draw connections across media and present a new narrative for art and design in this vibrant era."
Through a rich array of 400 works fatigued from both public and private collections, the exhibition will explore all aspects of design from day to nighttime: architecture, interior design, decorative art, jewelry and style, music and film. An apt metaphor for the new language of pattern during this period, jazz came to define an era of innovation and modernity—the Jazz Age—capturing the pulse and rhythm of the American attitude.
A brilliant historic period for art and design, the 1920s saw talent and craftsmanship, urbanity and experimentation menses back and forth across the Atlantic. Pregnant influences from away include the Paris 1925 Exposition des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes; newly transplanted European designers, primarily from Republic of austria and Germany; exhibitions featuring the latest foreign designs; and fashion and jewelry acquired overseas. To these influences were added American architecture, virtually notably the skyscraper that greatly impressed Americans and Europeans alike. The visitor will be invited to experience this world from an American perspective through six sections exploring objects affected by the purchasing power of new fortunes with new tastes, fueling a demand that prompted an outpouring of design and heralded a new era. The exhibition will be organized into the themes of the Persistence of Traditional "Good Gustation," A New Expect for Familiar Forms, Bending the Rules, A Smaller World, Brainchild and Reinvention, and Toward a Machine Age.
The exhibition is being organized by Sarah Bury, curator and head of product pattern and decorative arts at Cooper Hewitt and Stephen Harrison, curator of decorative art and design at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
"The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s" is fabricated possible by the generous support of Madeleine K. Rudin and Grant S. Johnson in retentiveness of Jack Rudin.
Additional major back up is provided by Amita and Purnendu Chatterjee, Robert and Helen Appel, Helen and Edward Hintz, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian and the Smithsonian National Board. Funding is also provided past the August Heckscher Exhibition Fund, The Masinter Family Foundation, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Nion McEvoy, Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family unit Foundation, Ehrenkranz Fund, Esme Usdan Exhibition Endowment Fund, Siegelson, New York, Cooper Hewitt Master's Program Fund, Karen and Joe Levine, and The Felicia Fund.
THE PERSISTENCE OF TRADITIONAL "GOOD TASTE"
Traditionalists championed historic styles, specifically American colonial and Federal designs with patriotic fervor. However, 17th- and 18th-century designs from France and England also found favor with American collectors who identified antique handcrafted work with social status. Among the works on view in this section include a re-discovered monumental tapestry woven past New Jersey's Edgewater Tapestry Looms, a wrought iron burn screen masterwork designed by Philadelphia artisan Samuel Yellin, a 17th-century-style blanket chest fabricated and painted past Max Kuehne, and a superb silver coffee and tea service in the style of Paul Revere, designed and made by George Gebelein of Boston and his business firm George Gebelein Silversmiths.
A NEW LOOK FOR FAMILIAR FORMS
Established techniques and forms made modernity accessible to those with conventional tastes. Works by high-end French makers such as Ēmile-Jacques Ruhlmann—who used lavish veneers and modified traditional forms, represented in the exhibition by a signature corner chiffonier and desk—afflicted American taste. In improver to historic pieces, early acquisitions of modern design by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other American museums became design sources for furniture by American makers such as W. & J. Sloane'due south Visitor of Master Craftsmen.
Flora and animal as well equally bold, vivid colour pairings often set this new style apart, especially in textiles, paintings, lacquer, jewelry, ceramics and drinking glass. Highlights in this section include a demi-parure designed by Meta Overbeck for Tiffany Studios and "Le Feu" (Fire), part of a serial of textiles of the Iv Elements shown at the 1925 Paris Exposition.
The role of the interior decorator came to the fore in this menstruation. The exhibition will include the piece of work of Nancy McClelland who commissioned wallpapers mixing traditional and modern elements and imported French examples that she featured with English Regency article of furniture.
BENDING THE RULES—STEPPING OUT
The new phenomenon of jazz music reflected the pulse and button of modern ideas against the rules and conventions of the traditional social order. Film clips featuring alive performances of Duke Ellington and other Cotton Lodge performers and "The Jazz Singer" will illustrate how cinema introduced talking, modern interiors, graphic design and style to the American public. Sheet music, posters and American performers, such every bit Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker, further transported American jazz to Europe.
On view in this section will be the necessities of stylish life at night for the well-heeled flapper: jeweled personal accessories for make-upward and cigarette smoking aimed at the increasingly liberated adult female too every bit truly new and daring way styles to suit matching ways of life.
Highlights of the significant amount of jewelry on view volition be two Cartier pieces owned by Linda Porter, married woman of composer Cole Porter, including a colorful "Tutti Frutti" bracelet and a 1926 chugalug buckle featuring a scarab motif inspired by the 1922 discovery of Rex Tut's tomb; a circa 1921 Cartier "Mystery" clock endemic by Anna Dodge, then named as the minute and hour hands appear to float; a lavish carved jade, sapphire and diamond bracelet owned by Mona Williams, later Mona von Bismark; a striking 1929 Van Cleef & Arpels necklace with carved rubies and diamonds; a circa 1925 Egyptian bracelet produced by Lacloche Frères; a geometric Boucheron bracelet shown at the 1925 Paris exposition; a 1930-35 Tiffany & Co. necklace with a skyscraper motif; a Rabbit serving champagne brooch by Raymond Yard; two Boucheron bow-grade brooches, one with carved lapis, coral, onyx and jade; and a stunning diamond bracelet owned by the actress Mae Westward.
A SMALLER WORLD
On both the third- and 2d-floor galleries, this section will explore how European exhibitions, education and imports afflicted American taste and production. Paris, Vienna and Berlin were at the cadre of influential thought and practice. Paris led Europe'south emergence from World War I, but American patronage and civilization helped transform the marketplace at home and abroad. New fortunes, primarily American, fueled a need for domestic and personal wares in brilliant new colors and sumptuous materials, evoking a sense of freedom in design. Paris, which hosted the 1925 international exposition dedicated to modern blueprint, held special appeal for Americans eager to travel to the source of manner. Designers, trained in Austria and Germany, who later immigrated to the United States, brought a new aesthetic to American decorative arts, combined with an appreciation of American forms, such every bit the skyscraper.
Jewelry, accessories and way purchased past Americans in France, especially in Paris, joined decorative furnishings as significant influences in luxury design. Significant American commissions from French designers will exist featured within the exhibition, including the magnificent doors past Séraphin Soudbinine and Jean Dunand for the residence of Solomon R. Guggenheim.
A 1926 American museum tour of 400 objects selected from the 1925 Paris Exposition that travelled to eight American museums helped spark a design revolution in the U.South. American department stores, especially Lord & Taylor and Macy's, played a significant role in broadening the appeal of this modern look, both through exhibitions and with their own interpretations, represented in the exhibition by a striking modern dressing table and demote, later on a design by Léon Jallot, which was retailed by Lord & Taylor.
"The Jazz Age" volition too survey the strong connections betwixt Austria and the United states of america. Viennese design grew in visibility through a New York branch of the Wiener Werkstätte in the early 1920s. Works from the American Wiener Werkstätte shop will be featured, including an elegant four-piece silver tea service past Josef Hoffmann, commissioned by Joseph Urban. The emigration from Europe shortly before and afterward Earth War I of Austrian and High german designers—including Joseph Urban, Paul T. Frankl, Walter von Nessen, Frederick Kiesler, Rudolph Schindler and Richard Neutra—seeking professional opportunities additionally brought a broader interest in industrial blueprint. Some introduced the influence of the Bauhaus, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, which brought chrome into the living room. Work in the same vein past American designers Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde and others will exist shown in comparing to European designs of the aforementioned menstruum. The interaction of American and European-trained designers greatly avant-garde the modern movement in the United States. The Americans were influenced by the Europeans' training, and the latter were excited by their acceptance in a new land with its energy and architectural inventiveness.
Brainchild AND REINVENTION
The increased utilize of abstract forms and decorative elements continues the story of connections between American blueprint and European artistic movements, imports and émigrés. The rise of skyscrapers and the metropolitan city, much admired by foreign-born designers, contributed to the use of geometric design, as shown in a monumental "Skyscraper" combination desk-bound and bookcase past Frankl, an iconic screen by Deskey, Eric Magnussen's unique "Cubic" coffee service for Gorham chosen "Lights and Shadows of Manhattan" and the elegant "Skyscraper" tea service designed past Louis Due west. Rice. Also on brandish in this department will be influential drawings such as Hugh Ferriss' "Study for Maximum Mass Permitted by the 1916 New York Zoning Law, Stage iv."
This section will address the impact of artistic movements, including Cubism, De Stijl and Constructivism. Important paintings on view such as Joseph Stella's "Brooklyn Bridge," Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Yellowish and Blue" and Robert Delaunay'due south "Eiffel Tower" volition be paired aslope blueprint objects such as René Chambellan'southward Chanin Edifice Gates, the "ITF" affiche by Piet Zwart and a De Stijl manner rug designed by Marion Dorn Kauffer.
TOWARD A MACHINE Historic period
As American ideals and fortunes adjusted to the growing hardship of the Great Depression, aesthetic considerations increasingly turned toward industrial pattern and less expensive materials for the domestic sphere. Very early editions of van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona chair and Le Corbusier'southward Chaise Longue helped to define the modern look. Further, the impact of Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic flight was tremendous, influencing everything from barware to fashion, including a pair of Cartier airplane brooches.
"The Jazz Age" concludes in the early 1930s, showing how the innovative materials, techniques and decorative designs of the 1920s, that originated every bit fashionable alternatives to the past, became necessities of way in the mail-1929 stock marketplace crash.
PUBLICATION
The accompanying 360-page publication, "The Jazz Age: American Fashion in the 1920s" will be published by the Cleveland Museum of Art and distributed past Yale University Press. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations, the comprehensive catalog volition show how American patronage and design, including the skyscraper, interacted with a mixture of European influences and designers to result in new representations of form, materials and styles. Retail cost: $twoscore softbound/$60 hardbound.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING
In spring 2017, a series of public programs will inspire conversation and share recent scholarship that intersects with the themes and concepts of this pioneering design period. Planned events include a curatorial panel discussion on the exhibition (April 19), a style-focused talk (May 3), a walking tour of Harlem, in conjunction with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (May eighteen), and a lecture on music from the Jazz Age (May 24).
An innovative integration of music and film clips will animate "The Jazz Age," enhancing the visitor experience, through a special collaboration with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, a Smithsonian Chapter. Farther initiatives with Jazz at Lincoln Center will extend the exhibition beyond the museum campus.
The exhibition will debut in April during Jazz Appreciation Month, established in 2002 past the Smithsonian'south National Museum of American History, to herald and celebrate the extraordinary heritage and history of jazz.
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Vinci | Hamp will serve as Cooper Hewitt's exhibition designer. Tsang Seymour will blueprint the exhibition graphics.
RELATED EXHIBITIONS
Meantime on view at Cooper Hewitt will be the "Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Drove" (April seven through Aug. 27) and "The Earth of Radio" (February. 3 through Sept. 24).
"Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era," on display in the Carnegie Mansion's Teak Room, features more than than 100 extraordinary examples of cigarette and vanity cases, compacts, clocks and other luxury objects from the premier jewelry houses of Europe and America.
The centerpiece of "The World of Radio" exhibition will be a 1934 batik wall landscape created by Arthur Gordon Smith, celebrating the career of soprano and radio star Jessica Dragonette, which will exist displayed alongside radios, drawings and photographs of the era. The landscape contains multiple vignettes that illustrate milestones in radio's history likewise as familiar icons of the Jazz Age, including a wall of Art Deco skyscrapers crisscrossed by airplanes and musical notes.
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