• RAPAPORT, Brooke Kamin & Stayton, Kevin L. Vital Forms: American art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960.
  • RAPAPORT, Brooke Kamin & Stayton, Kevin L. Vital Forms: American art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960.
  • RAPAPORT, Brooke Kamin & Stayton, Kevin L. Vital Forms: American art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960.
  • RAPAPORT, Brooke Kamin & Stayton, Kevin L. Vital Forms: American art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960.

RAPAPORT, Brooke Kamin & Stayton, Kevin L. Vital Forms: American art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960.

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Brooklyn/New York: The Brooklyn Museum/Abrams, 2001.

Hardcover. First edition. 4to.; 256 pages; lavishly illustrated with color and b&w photographs; text clean and bright; white cloth boards with silver gilt stamped lettering; rubbed corners; in very good condition. Original pictorial dust jacket with image of a slinky; moderate wear along top edge and mild wearing to bottom; in very good condition. This book examines the emergence of abstract organic forms and their assimilation into the popular arts and culture of American life from 1940-1960, covering advertising, decorative arts, commercial design, and the fine arts. Exhibition Schedule: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Oct. 12, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Feb. 16-May 12, 2002; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 21-Sept. 15, 2002; Los Angeles County Museum of Art Nov. 17, 2002-Feb. 23, 2003