The 25th issue of The Wolfsonian’s award-winning Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (DAPA) arrives in April. This latest issue explores the material, social, and cultural world of the large American hotel. Ten richly illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created this distinctly and complex urban institution, from the Gilded Age in New York to 1950s Miami Beach. Broadly imagined yet cohesively focused, the essays examine such major historical processes as consumption and modernism, class, gender, and race.
This issue of DAPA is guest-edited by Molly W. Berger, instructor of history at Case Western Reserve. It was published with major support from the Cowles Charitable Trust and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and is distributed by MIT Press. Copies are available for $25 at The Wolfsonian museum store, 305.535.2680.
The 25th issue of The Wolfsonian’s award-winning Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts (DAPA) arrives in April. This latest issue explores the material, social, and cultural world of the large American hotel. Ten richly illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created this distinctly and complex urban institution, from the Gilded Age in New York to 1950s Miami Beach. Broadly imagined yet cohesively focused, the essays examine such major historical processes as consumption and modernism, class, gender, and race.
This issue of DAPA is guest-edited by Molly W. Berger, instructor of history at Case Western Reserve. It was published with major support from the Cowles Charitable Trust and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and is distributed by MIT Press. Copies are available for $25 at The Wolfsonian museum store, 305.535.2680.