128 pages, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-0738532288
Another one of my Dad’s books, who collected every book he found on art deco and its related art forms. Believe it or not, but Detroit was once a model American city: prosperous, orderly, beautiful even, if Art Deco in Detroit by Rebecca Binno Savage is anything to go by. Part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series, this slim tome is but an overview of some of the Art Deco treasures that can (sometimes) still be found in the Once and Future Motor City. Dad was all about the Deco, and as he flipped through this book I’m sure it brought back memories of the mighty city he was born and raised in, a city that put the world on wheels and in which the modern American Middle Class was, in many ways, born and bred. While this particular art and architectural movement saw its birth and apotheosis in the 1920s – and while it was partially subsumed by all that ugly modernism that infects us still – the artistic impulses that gave it birth are with us still, if one were to only look hard enough.
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