History of Industrial Design Week 5: Art Deco
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- Опубліковано 15 бер 2020
- These videos were made in 2020 as a desperate COVID-era attempt to help keep students engaged in learning as in-person teaching stopped. With no support, no resources, a ridiculous "production schedule," and no idea they would become a sort of permanent record of the time, I just threw them at UA-cam. The students mostly didn't watch them, but lots of others did, and that continues to amaze me. I decided to leave them up for anyone who is just curious about design.
This was the FIRST lecture recorded, intended for the three students who needed to get home fast. It is rough, to say the least..
NOTE: If you are a current student at Rhode Island School of Design and your professor has sent you here to watch these videos, you should really worry about how much tuition you are paying just to have a teacher sending you to UA-cam instead of teaching you themselves. Just saying...
Three years have passed since you made this superb video for your students, and for the wider world. Those of us who love design, and here, with this video art deco, please accept our sincere appreciation.
As someone who can’t afford traditional education thank you for making your knowledge accessible!!!!!
I was very happy with your comment, thank you for watching our videos. a big hug!
Read a BOOK. Visit a free library...
Thank you, I am not student just someone who likes Art Deco. I found your presentation so interesting and I have learned a lot. : )
Me too. Thoroughly enjoyed the class.
I enjoyed this presentation as well. I love bakelite jewelry so I found it really interesting.
Same here. This was great.
Same
Same boat and love this stuff! Thank you for making this available to the web :) and public.
What a treasure chest of knowledge. I am not one of your students, but an old guy trying to learn about design. I have never encountered videos of a similar breadth and depth. Thank you for doing it even when you seem to think nobody is watching - I will be. Greetings from Denmark, Europe.
Yes they are facinating aren't they
This presentation was so absolutely informative..wow. I am 80 years old...and I am a former high school teacher. Your ability to instruct, inform, and present such detailed information is a real gift. I can well imagine your students are so delighted to be in your classes. I thoroughly enjoyed this one presentation and I learned so much. Thank you for sharing.
of course they'b de, all they have to do is look at the pretty pictures, nothing else is expected of their lazy asses...... . this is the equivalent of watching tv as "academic" studies go....
I'm only 5 minutes in and I can tell you're a great teacher. I came for just a presentation on Art Deco but I am subscribing because of your attitude and look forward to seeing more content!
Please don’t be so hard on your production values. You are an educator.... a teacher.... And by God you can teach! I not only stayed for the entire program I was fascinated.
I concur!!!😁👍👍
OK I'm a doctor from Brussels so I have no idea how I got here but I am passionate about Art Nouveau and Art Deco and this is just such a lovely class. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Cheers !
Hooray! Thanks for joining the party! The Van Buuren house in Uccle is one of my FAVAORITE places; you are lucky to be near it!
Doctor, not to be flip but there's ALOT OF here in the US SUFFERING IN NEEDLESS PAIN DUE TO THE GOVT DICTATEING WHAT MEDS YOU CAN PRESCRIBE SO WE CAN ENJOY THIS PROGRAM. DONT LET IT HAPPEN IN YOUR COUNTRY. THATS WHY YOU CAME ONTO THE SITE.
@SEAN PETAIA me
@SEAN PETAIA Me to too also
@@stevengermadnik3162 Calm down dude lol. Sounds like you need to be prescribed something.
Hi there -- Hey, I just want to say that I am one of the "outsiders" (not in your class) who stumbled across your video and found it fascinating. Honestly, the content you provide here is of such value -- available nowhere else on UA-cam -- that you really don't need to make apologies for the lack of slickness. I think there are many of us who enjoy watching academic-level lectures on everything from the Napoleonic Wars to the history of industrial design. Honestly, the apologies get a little distracting and they really aren't needed. It is rare that I learn something new in a field I already know plenty about. Where art deco is concerned, I've loved the style all my life, and I am currently furnishing a vintage-1935 house entirely in art deco furnishings. I find that the angular style of 1925-1935 mates very well with the later streamline moderne style of about 1936-1952. (I hate that so many call this "midcentury modern," as late-50s styles really are quite different than what came before.) One other thing I have noticed, in looking at what is readily available in my region, the Pacific Northwest, shopping via Craigslist and FB Marketplace, is that about half of what survives was originally available at some point in the Sears catalog. This shows us the inordinate influence of department stores in promoting the new style, something you note in your script, and a point that often is overlooked. Anyway, I think your video is a great service to the general public, not just the students in your class. If slickness is a concern, your PowerPoint slides and your core script are so good and so spot-on that I think this might be worth redoing. I am fascinated by the history of industrial design, and there is really no one on UA-cam who describes it with the authority, detail and level of academic knowledge that you do here. A little tweaking and I think you could establish preeminence in the field. A friendly suggestion from someone who enjoyed your presentation immensely. (P.S. -- My hometown is Spokane, Wash., and I loved seeing the slide of our fabulous vintage-1931 Fox Theater, where I saw many a Disney movie and became acquainted with art deco as a kid. I think that's where I got hooked.)
Please don't feel like you are going on too long, this is all very fascinating.
Thank you for this. I am a writer jumping into a 1920s film noir based project and I wanted to get a quick-n-dirty feel for the times. Instead, I got a nuanced, eclectic, informative perspective on American manufacture and world history. And a handsomely-voiced teacher to boot! Thank you 🙏🏾
Ditto on the voice: yours was made for broadcast.
This was really interesting - not a 'hot mess' at all! Thank you for sharing beyond your students.
I hope this comment is read. I just wanted to say that these videos have helped me get through one of the worst periods of depression I've ever experienced. Thank you for posting them. It's been very nice hearing your take on a specific and paramount part of the ongoing human endeavor. It's nice seeing beautiful things and learning about their creation and contribution to the story of humanity and our progression. Thank you.
MANY thanks for this lovely comment!!!!
Just what I needed! Thank you, Matthew!
(And your UA-cam audience isn't wearing pants either!)
This is a fantastic lecture. Thank you so much for posting this on UA-cam for all of us to listen to! With your knowledge, personality, and voice I think you’d make an excellent podcaster or UA-camr. Would love to see more content about design from you. Thanks again!
I was obsessed with Art Deco as a child and have always been a Design aficionado. Including industrial design. Thank you for the rich, deep research and illuminating lecture!
This is incredible. What an amazing resource! I also love your teaching style and sense of humor & adaptability in light of the contemporary situation. As a fellow teacher during the pandemic, I really and truly appreciate this.
I'm watching this from Umea Institute of Design in Sweden as we're in the same boat regarding student presence. I love your presentation and now I wish I had access to the previous weeks. :-)
Well there are still 6 weeks to go!!!!! Stay tuned!
@@HistoryofID Oh, I will. 😄
@@HistoryofID Is there the Possibility of your recording the PREVIOUS CLASSES.... And ANYthing Else related???? I would even put up with Ads, but would really like to hear A LOT MORE! I wish Others would do this!
I was done out of Any Higher education! I think that's why I Now gravitate towards any World History, Art History, etc...
By the time I was Finally "free" to pursue things like that.... go out and get the Learning I CRAVED.... I had become too Ill & too Disabled and in NO better financial shape to even Pay for these websites that want a monthly FEE.. to access the videos. Something I just CANNOT do!! So TY for making these available for ALL... And YES, I assure u, even IF, some of your students didn't make it the end... MANY of us DID! This is actually... about the 3rd? time I've watched them. lol.
(p. s. I frankly LIKE the straight "unedited" versions)
Professor Bird , I want to assure you that I am enthralled by all of this information . Thank you so very much for making this happen. Cheers from California !
hello, I am also not a student,
This channel is an absolute gold mine of knowledge! thank you for making it public!
I’m so glad UA-cam recommended your lecture. You definitely didn’t waste time and you can be assured it was worth the donning off coat and tie. This stuff is my jam.
I am a Latvian living in France and being a member of Toulouse Art Deco association. Your lecture was so informative, gave an opportunity to see some other angles and perspectives of Art Deco style, see the context . Thanks for your as well humor. Your students must be lucky to have you.
I started to watch this to relax before going to bed and ended up going to sleep at 2AM because I couldn't stop watching. You are an amazing teacher. Thank you for sharing this with us!
As a random person trying to figure out for the first time - the transition, era and influences of Art Deco.
This was "streamlined" beautifully.
Most valuable 2 hours I've spent this year. Bravo! 👍🏻
Please keep this open & expanded for us, the non-students 😁
I'm a plumber and a student at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. I work in some of the most incredible old buildings in new York City. I've seen art deco bathrooms so spectacular, beyond description!. This is such a wonderful presentation, thank you for posting this for all to enjoy. -Eric Monaco
11-2021, I found this fascinating and loved all the visuals! Thank you so much! I wish this design period is reproduced more today for all of us who love Art Deco and can’t afford the few pieces on the market for sale.
I’m not in your class or your school and I find this very interesting and funny. Especially the part when you got side tracked going off on a tangent about hiccuping 😂
Your students are SO LUCKY to have you. The video is full of amazing information and your humour is making it even more pleasurable. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Thanks Matthew. I've been following your videos for a few years now and relish each one. I've been a professional designer for about 20 years and still learn new things every time I watch. Your video on efficiency has been shared with my clients to explain some of the design decisions I make for them.
I'm really looking forward to seeing way more content now that we have the plague.
You will want to read it... all 444 pages on line and free... archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74386/page/n3/mode/2up
The thing that brought me here is
1)loving the style
2)minecraft
3)when trying to understand the mannerisms and mentality of the design, gained through well educated teachers, allows for creativity to flow from a state of natural, while drawing on the principles internalized from the talk
I wish I had a professor like Matthew Bird!!! Lucky students!! Super explanation, clear and also full of interesting details. I hope his students valued the amazing work he did.
I waited for your lectures since your lecture on "Bauhaus to Broadway" please please put more your interesting lectured on youtube, Or udemy, or any other platform. Your lectures are incredibly interesting!!!!
Stumbled upon this at 1:30 AM. In addition to being really informative, it's interesting to see how 100 years ago a unique set of circumstances created this interesting design style and now a unique set of circumstances led me to watch this lecture. I'm not a student at all, but I enjoyed watching this and learning from you
This is why I love the internet and UA-cam. I’m not a student nor studying design just came across this gem of knowledge and Im here for it.
Mathew, it's now 2021, I just found your lecture, watched it all in one sitting. How I wish, I was 40 years (gulp) younger and could change my career path and attend your class at The Rhode Island School of Design.
Now 2022 and were I 50 years younger I'd join you!!
Greetings form France. What a beautiful thing the internet is that we can freely educate and touch the lives of people who we may never meet on the other side of the globe. Thank you very much for your time, effort and passion in making this.
When I see a photograph with Art Deco images, my heart involuntarily misses a beat, and I feel an overwhelming sense of joy. I don't know anything about art, style or design but growing up as a lonely and isolated child who sought refuge in the movies of the 1930's, Art Deco symbolizes a promissory note for a more beautiful and prosperous future liberated from war, poverty, crime and racism. I wished with all my heart that I could exist in that world!
Just adding to the praise already here. As someone who can barley make it through a 5-10 minute UA-cam video, I’ve just made it through two hours of really fascinating
and well presented stuff. I’ll be watching more! Thanks for uploading.
I just HAVE TO say this session was absolutely BRILLIANT! I am not a student, I studied engineering and later also illustration, am a huge fan of industrial design and despite working in the field for 20 odd years I still found this excellent.
Please do not think for one second we are not following or not entertained.
Excellent work - I am now going to go back and watch your previous sessions about Art Nouveau! I hope you will do one for Googie too at some point!
Keep up the excellent work!
I walked around Miami Beach today & feel like I "discovered" Art Deco for the first time in my life. THANK YOU, Matthew Bird, for sharing this wonderful video with us. What an incredible introduction to Art Deco. Your expertise, insight, and humor are appreciated more than I can even say.
Thank you very much for making this freely available! I had never thought about Industrial desing in the past, heck i didn't even knew who this guy on out (now retired) 10 swissfrancs bill was. But this lecture was so interesting and well produced that I watched everything and it sparked my interested in design!
This video was one of my best random finds on this platform and even though I am not your student and two years late to the party, I have listened through and learned a lot out of it. You have a very natural and clear way of conveying information. I didn't feel like I was sitting in a lecture, I felt like a good friend of mine wanted to share with me something they are very passionate about and it so happened that they knew a lot about art deco. I will definitely check other videos now. Greetings from Poland.
I have been an engineer in consumer electronics for 30 years, these lectures reignite my enthusiasm of designing and building things. I wish I had access to this lectures when I was at university. I constantly rewatch these lectures and I share them with my nieces and nephews who are starting their careers to try to inspire a love of I.D. BTW Love the "hot mess" approach it's charming and brings a human side to a subject that can tend to the clinical and cold.....Thinks...... sterile white surfaces and turtle neck sweaters of my former company.. Many , many thanks!
I wish I have a teacher like you, Matthew. Absolutely beautiful presentation. Full of examples, references and in depth analysis of this fantastic era of design. And I love your touch of humour too. I'm subscribing to your channel and I will be browsing your videos for the next couple of weeks, maybe. Keep up the good work, and thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge and taking the time to do this.
This is more than two years later, but I am so glad I happened upon this recorded lecture. First, we are restoring our basement that was originally a speakeasy, and after watching I learned that the style is clearly inspired by Donald Deskey's designs. I will look further into his designs, and I am sure the decor will fall into place. Second, we are casually looking for future art schools for my 13-year-old daughter and after sitting through your lecture, I am sure RISD will be at the top of her list. I also know a few RISD alumni who are fantastic artists and wonderful people.
I've watched this twice, about a year apart, and learned new things each time. Prof. Bird, you are a fabulous historian and presenter!
I did not think I could love Art Deco more than I did, but now I do and I thank you for finding even greater coherence in the movement than I had.
Thank you! I discovered your video by chance (a year later). I'm just someone who likes Art Déco and, thanks to you, I learned so much... (greetings from Belgium!)
I just want to say that I wandered onto your video Sunday, 3rd April 2022 and I watched THE WHOLE THING!!!
:)
Since that seemed to be a concern for you. I am not an industrial design student. I'm a retired IT guy.
It was interesting. Your enthusiasm for the subject was lovely.
You made it very engaging AND you made it all make sense. How Paris 1925, the emergence of new materials/new tech influenced design and modern life, how people's expectations were changed and channeled by design and tech.
Very interesting ideas.
Thank you, sir!
Thanks for the video. I am an industrial designer who worked at Teague in the late 70's. Everything stated in your video rang true to my thinking. When I try to tell non-design folk of what industrial designers do I use the analogy of being artisans in the past that creates objects people touch and use; Stone carvers, mural painters, furniture makers and architects. They all created wonders in products and in design. Someone had to design it and make it or get it made. I consider ourselves modern "Artisans". Forever changing what we do for society and humanity. Enjoyed your talk; wasn't boring.
Just started my journey in interior design. Your students are so lucky, thank you for giving a chance to the world to learn from you!
Matthew, you are a delight to hear. I have been an Art Deco fan all my life and your lectures are awesome. Thanks.
Matthew, I just discovered your channel and I am so glad I did. I think you're an excellent teacher and I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I stayed to the last second absolutely engaged. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate all the work that it took for you to put this material together and talk about it so knowledgeably. There is nothing greater than a fine teacher.
Thanks, Matthew! This is AWESOME! Charming, funny, informative, and very compelling. Art Deco really needed the in-depth treatment you give it here. Watched it to the end with relish, and have started watching the one on Art Noveau. Absolutely fascinating, and very well presented. No need to stop apologizing, since it's so funny when you do!
Thank you so much for making this public. I just bought a set of art deco nightstands. I have always been a fan but wanted to learn more and most certainly have. Thank you so much. You are a terrific presenter.
I'm only :20 minutes into this lecture and already my understanding of art deco has been forever expanded thanks to your BEAUTIFULLY assembled presentation. You make crisis mode look easy and I can't thank you enough. (Now back to the show.)
What a great presentation! Thank you so much for makin this publicly available. Love your sence of humor as well. Thanks again!
Wow! Came across this gem in my feed! Love this. Quite funny, at 42.52 mins in he says none of that matter, no one is still watching! Of course I am!
You've done a fine job, Prof! I love me some Deco, and was delighted to find your vid in my YT feed this morning! I hope all is well with you and your students.
Also here of my own free will, and I feel grateful for it too! I grew up in a very large family of doctors and academics and listening to you crack deadpan jokes and move on as if you'd never made them is my second favorite part of stumbling upon and slipping into the back of this class. The first is learning the technical angles of an era that stole and kept my heart almost 40 years ago. I have always found great joy in the streamlining designs and I had No idea that it also serves a key purpose in structural integrity.
Thank you very much for your time and excellent deliverance of your vast knowledge of this endlessly fascinating subject! I will be looking forward to seeking out the rest of your classes.
I'm from Minneapolis, where I am right now because Minnesotans have a curse of Always coming back [if you aren't fabulously rich] after having traveled and lived elsewhere, and I had to look up Donald Deskey. I must say that I was shocked to see that he is from Blue Earth, MN, because even today that is the middle of nowhere. I can't imagine it rearing someone so majorly artistically influential as he! After shamefully admitting that I've Somehow gone this far without recognizing his name, I was disappointed to find that I'm not a big fan of the chunky deco styles that I've seen of his just now. I Was, however, elated to see that I adore his mid century designs and remember always liking those early Jiffy and Crest color and design schemes. I'm excited to find out more about his work.
The Minneapolis Museum of Art owns a jade green enamel and chrome art deco vanity in the skyscraper motif that is Impossibly tall and narrow and shiny and so Goddamn *Epic* that I had to seek out someone of authority when I was there last (I live across the street), and ask them where the Heck it is because I haven't seen it in years. She said that they've parked it in storage where it actually Lives and it's only on display for special occasions. It's an Absolute Travesty. I feel like picketing over it!!!
Sorry I keep commenting but that "The Zephyr" desk clock, c. 1934 you commented on is also part of the MIA! I'm not trying to be a "Hater", but if we can look at some of those 'contemporary modern abstract' paintings made in the last decade every single time we visit, I certainly think that the 3 Kem Weber pieces we have Plenty of room for can come up from the cellar and join the daily family activities with everyone else. It's only logical. Gawd!
Just discovering the Entire gifted Modernism Collection (...Of Incredible Stuff! ), I see the red Ice Gun you loved ( as did I!) is also in our substantial stash, so you likely know this already. There's so much gaping space at the MIA that we could make way for the entire collection and likely draw far more consistent interest than the gloomy period room in which George Washington's ghost sits bored to death inside, year after year after year...
I’m glad I found you as I was surfing on UA-cam. I stuck with you to the end and was left wanting more. One of my uncles worked in design at Chevrolet in the 50s and another who in aerospace. And I like Art Deco. I’ve saved the lecture in my library of things I want to see again and again. Thanks for sharing.
Loved the video. Great content. Love the authenticity of the au pif delivery style even more. Your love for the subject matter shines through, and that matters a lot. Bravo. I would sit your course in a heartbeat.
What a fantastic summary of this style and period ! I have been in love with this addictive material ,actively collecting it from 25 until the age of 65, and still pursuing it .
oh hey i own that 8 o'clock coffee tin featured in the beginning! thank you so much for making this and making it available here. i LOVE art deco and the whole era of the 20's through the 30's. It's a fascinating era and i loved watching all of this
I love the whole package ;) The knowledge, the presentation and the humor. Thank you!
OMG! I wish all my hot messes were as excellent as yours. Absolutely wonderful video. How I wish the art history classes I took in the 1960’s (Mass College of Art) had been as interesting and the professors as charismatic as you. THANK YOU! Now I must watch your other videos. And, BTW, I watched to the end and enjoyed every minute. And if you can forgive a 73-year-old grandmother, you are too hard on yourself!
❤️ Shirley
I came upon your pandemic-driven workaround presentation, and I have to say I was utterly charmed and disarmed by your honesty and complete brilliance. And humor. And thoroughness. This was revelatory, and fun, and you are a fine professor indeed. I was born in 1953, and grew up with those bakelite phones, and those aluminum coffee percolators. And those roundish radios, never knowing that the horizontal lines were not only for looks but for venting heat from the components inside. The skyscraper-imitating cabinets were glorious to behold. And the early radio cabinets on their tall sculpted legs. I could go on and on, but this was a fine detour to take into a world I know very little about. Thank you. Odds Bodkin
Many thanks! Coming from you that means even more! Story telling is the underlying skill set!!!
These lectures have been such an excellent introduction into the world of ID! Thank you for posting these publicly Matthew! My husband and I have loved watched them. Please keep posting them!!
Hooray! Many thanks. Class starts again soon and I will get the first few that were live last time up here as well....
I watched to the end! I have always loved the aesthetic of Art Deco and I can usually spot it at 100 paces but the history and evolution of why it came to be and how it changed the way we move in the world today makes me love it even more. This entire course is absolutely wonderful and I always watch to the VERY end!🌸
You are delightful! I'm still watching the class... you just make me LOL in real life, sir. I'm looking forward to watching more of your content. Thanks for sharing.♥
This presentation is just what I was looking for! I'm a graphic designer from Australia and I stumbled across this while searching for more information about Art Deco. Thanks Matthew for the detailed information, keep it coming and looking forward to more of your enjoyable presentations!
I’m an IT guy in NYC and was looking for comprehensive info on design and specifically on Arts Nouveau and Deco. You’re amazing. I lovedddd this and will be watching all you’ve done. Thank heavens for knowledgeable and enjoyable teachers such as you!
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!! Soooo much knowledge, and it is so interesting and FUN to listen to you!! thank you so much from all of us that ended up here! really amazing. I will watch all your videos!
Really amazing lecture, thank you so much for sharing
Matthew, you are an extraordinary teacher! I am a Primary School teacher from South Africa and come from an academic family that loves history and art. The way in which you combined these two fields with your remarkable knowledge and passion for this topic is inspiring! I now understand objects that were in my grandparents' homes so much better.
Just found this video & adore the art deco period as well as the part it played in history. Your lecture is lovely, comprehensive & so interesting! Thank you so much...🎉
We are watching and we love this video. You are a gem and nothing like so many videos about design from people who don’t know how to design or have a product to sell. I’m not a student, just someone trying to decorate my space and incorporate Art Deco. I can’t say thank you enough. I went to bed at hour one and couldn’t wait to start watching again in the morning.
Legitimately excited for this! thanks Matt!
What an amazing professor, so clearly passionate about what you teach--it's infectious! Your students are lucky to have you!!
I love Art Deco and when your informative and entertaining presentation popped up in my recommended list, I had to watch all the way to the end. Thank you.
I came across your video while researching into art deco for my design class. I have watched the entire video in one go and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It was informative and you managed to keep it entertaining and engaging. A impressive feat. Thank you.
Awesome! Thanks for making this available to all. I am doing research on a movie script I am working on and this really helped me get a feel for the period and the logic behind the Art Deco aesthetic! Thanks so much! If this is you struggling...I can't imagine how amazing your lectures are when you are "on point." :)
Thank you for a great lecture!
I like Art Deco, and living in Chicago have explored downtown Art Deco buildings during Chicago Architecture Center “Open house” days.
Your lecture have expended my horizons about the Art Deco architecture and far beyond. It took me two days to get through the entire lecture and I have learned a lot. I am not a student, just like Art Nouveau and Art Deco. When I travel or arrange travel for my clients, I always include a tour of the city that will cover both or either Art Nouveau or Art Deco architecture, museums. Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Riga, Moscow, Kiev are the cities famous for both Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro are amazing for both styles too, visited in 2019.
Prague is the best kept secret after the city restored building, temples and just accidentally art.
Thank you again and again for sharing your knowledge with all of us. I have sent this lecture to at least 10 of my friends. Looking forward to more lectures.
Thank you for a great lecture, your knowledge of the era is breathtaking. Please, recommend other lecture on this subject.
I'm no longer a student, but I love art history and all the objects and design you talked about. You were just so good. You looked relaxed and prepared, and the talk + visuals held together so well. I learned loads from you while having a great time. And now I have new ways to look at designed things. A+!
Absolutely incredible presentation. The 2 hours actually went by really fast. A+ from beginning to end. Massive thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm. Will be watching this again.
Don't know how I got here and not a student but love Art Deco and Steam Punk! This is an awesome video! Thank you look forward to more!
I came across this video while idly searching for inspiring art deco images for a home art project, and I am now hooked on your whole lecture series! Thank you for making these available to us all.
I guess I should thank Covid. Without it, this would have been limited to those in your class. Instead, here I am in Melbourne, Australia enjoying this look into Art Deco while wondering what I missed in weeks 1-4.
Thank you for making this available for the world to see.
Love this! Thank you so much for sharing!
You have nothing to apologize for, you are brilliant!
More please!
Thank you a lot. I am not a student but a woodworker and this is the best series on Industrial Design.
Super Awesome!
Well, this I have to say is a genuine diamond on YT. Although I’ve had Art History as a minor subject, my specific interest in the area of industrial arts has always been Art Deco. I made it an integrated element in the interior design of our house as much as feasible including accessories, although it’s never been easy. The history of Art Deco itself and its flow of development is profusely well explained in this lecture. I’ve learned many new details and facts. Thank you so much.
Thank you from Provincetown MA! We stumbled upon this after watching info about the World's Fair! Art Deco & Art Nouveaux are my favorite eras for both functional and extravagant furniture. Lots of Trompe l'oeil, as you said with perspective, height & width... I want the Lord & Taylor 'knock off'. I've done some interesting furniture restorations with that red red high gloss lacquer, gives an eastern feel....
I have always loved and dabbled in art, but it is a real escape from the world's horrors these days. So glad I found these lectures. Thanks, you're the best!
Thank you for a fascinating and informative video lecture on the Art Deco era. I'm not a student,but this video brought back fond memories of lectures i experienced in college; and your delievery without all of the technological corrections enhanced,rather than detracted from, the watchability of your video presentation. I watched it from beginning to end without having a need to do anything else than listen to your explanations of the beautiful visuals on the screen. Thank you once again for sharing your knowledge and understanding of this subject : it is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for putting this on UA-cam - I watched it because I am interested in Art Deco. Very interesting and much appreciated.
Absolutely spectacular information presented from the period. Not a student currently but a 54 year old lover of Art Deco who always loves to learn. Thank you !!!!
This video was recommended off the back of the BBC Bauhaus documentary, and I am so glad I clicked through, because not only is it a thoroughly engaging presentation on its own, but also the PERFECT companion to that documentary. Nostalgia on so many levels, including remembering when just "not touching your face" was going to solve this whole Covid nightmare!? Lastly, The Fonz gives this video an AHHHHH + with two thumbs up ;)
from the random viewer - great video, well put together and very substantive. Very happy to see the channel offering more to explore ! Thanks for your time
Mathew Bird you sir are a natural teacher, I can now see the introduction of speed into the aesthetics of almost everything, love it!, and the travel concept too, so interesting, your knowledge and insight is fantastic thank you and BRAVO!.
This video is GREAT! Not a student, just like to know stuff. 😊
You are a very good presenter. If more teachers were like you, there would be more students in a lot of subjects! ♥️👵