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Livable Modernism : Interior Decorating and Design During the Great DepressionLivable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression, an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery from October 5, 2004 through June 5, 2005, takes a new look at the ways modernism was introduced into the American home. The carefully edited installation shows how certain American designers successfully combined the streamlined simplicity of modernism with the middle-class desire for comfort and familiarity in a time of economic and social disruption. The exhibition includes examples of furniture, tableware, and accessories by designers such as Gilbert Rohde, Russel Wright, George Sakier, and Lurelle Guild, selected from the Art Gallery's collection of American decorative arts and supplemented by loans from a private collection. Reproductions of 1930s advertisements and photographs of store displays show how skillfully these products were marketed.
A lecture and symposium, American Modernist Design, 1920-1940: New Perspectives, will be held on Friday evening and all day Saturday, October 29 and 30, 2004.
Livable Modernism accompanies a book of the same title that offers a fresh scholarly investigation of the ways modernist design was adapted for the living, dining, and bedrooms of American middle-class homes during the Depression years. Kristina Wilson, assistant professor of art history at C
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