Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. Some light foxing on top but does not affect pages. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Cond? Nast first published Vogue in America in 1909 and from then until well into the thirties when photography began slowly to take over all the covers were specially commissioned from distinguished artists and designers of the time. This book thus provides a remarkably valuable record of the designs the fashions and the graphic art of a period which saw momentous developments in the arts – a time when the work of the young Picasso was gaining recognition and theballets of Diaghilev were taking Paris London and New York by storm. In the many covers artists such as Lepape and Benito drew for Vogue the true image of the Roaring Twenties – the Jazz Age – is brilliantly reflected. William Packer provides a summary of the influences at work on the cover artists illustrated with a fascinating collection of sketches cartoons and fashion plates. Detailed captions to all the covers provide fashion notes as well. (MP)