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An American style : global sources for New York textiles and fashion design, 1915-1928 / Ann Marguerite Tartsinis.

By: Tartsinis, Ann Marguerite [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2013Description: 144 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300199437 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Textile design -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Textile design -- United States -- History -- Sources | Fashion design -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 677'.022'0973'09042 Summary: In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energize the American textile industry. Curators sought to innovate a distinctly 'American' design idiom drawing on a more universal 'primitive' language. Ethnographic objects were included in study rooms; designers gained access to storage rooms; and museum artefacts were loaned to design houses and department stores. This book positions the project at the AMNH in the broader narrative of early 20th-century design education in New York which includes the roles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Newark Museum.
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In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energize the American textile industry. Curators sought to innovate a distinctly 'American' design idiom drawing on a more universal 'primitive' language. Ethnographic objects were included in study rooms; designers gained access to storage rooms; and museum artefacts were loaned to design houses and department stores. This book positions the project at the AMNH in the broader narrative of early 20th-century design education in New York which includes the roles of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Newark Museum.

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