Top 10 Best "1930" Books

The Dark Valley

Piers Brendon

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Since Yesterday

Frederick L. Allen

1930

Since Yesterday

"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."-- Saturday Review

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Art Deco Complete

Alastair Duncan

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Everyday Stalinism

Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs

Tammy Ward
Tina Skinner

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1930s Scrapbook

Robert Opie

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Folk Photography

Luc Sante

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New York 1930

Robert A.M. Stern
Gregory F. Gilmartin
Thomas Mellins

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The American Look

Rebecca Arnold

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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940

David E. Kyvig

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Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960

This beautifully written new book explores the work of 175 of the most important American modernist artist jewelers through a comprehensive text and over 540 color and 35 black and white photos. Beginning with the streamlining of Art Moderne, modernist jewelers mirrored the consciousness of their age. They were free thinkersartists who broke away from the mainstream of jewelry design and looked to the fine arts for inspiration; they were Surrealists, Cubists, and Abstract Expressionists functioning as sculptors in small scale, painters in enamels, and architects in miniature. The modernist metalsmiths of the 1930s through 1960s laid the groundwork for the enormous expansion of metalsmithing in the 1970s and '80s. These creative jewelers produced personal designs as they absorbed the changes happening in the world around them. The artists' stories and jewelry are arranged chronologically and linked to four pivotal exhibitions held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1946; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, in 1948 and 1955; and an exhibition on paper in 1959. Together, t...

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Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960

Marbeth Schon

1930

Dust Bowl

Donald Worster

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