Wolf, Norbertc creator text Munich Prestel 2024 monographic 286p. Editorial note acknowledgements p.13, Modernism beautified? P.14 icons of art deco p.19, Style or fashion? p.22, The cult of the decorative p.22, A new style or a fashionable dressing of the new? p.26, The 1920s and 1930s: politics and culture p. The political background p.33, war, revolution, inflation p.33, The advance of the dictators p.35, A new world power: the USA p.37, Casting light on everyday culture p.40, The fascination of technology p.45, The media p.48, Lifestyle p.59, Art deco: the beginnings p.64, paris 1925: an exhibition creates a furor p.69, Precursors p.78, The "austere" jugendstil p.78, historicism and exoticism p.84, Cubismn and futurism p.87,Lles ballets russes p.92, Parallel arti/tic worlds p.94, Ab/traction p.96, constructivism, suprematism, Bauhaus p.96, Figuration p.101, The return to order p.101, Valori plastici and novecento p.111, New objectivity - magic realism verism p.115, American precisionism p.138 7465, Burhani Book Centre 720.288/WOL 9783791982418