Ocean liners
Subtitle: glamour, speed and style
By: edited by Daniel Finamore and Ghislaine Wood
Contributors: Peabody Essex Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: V&A Publishing; Peabody Essex Museum
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781851779062; 9781851779246
Subjects: Ocean liners; Exhibitions; History
Description: Ocean Liners became floating cities for those lucky enough to travel in an era before commercial flight was widely affordable. This book explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural and political factors that came together to define such an iconic mode of travel, from grand Victorian barges to luxurious Art Deco floating palaces and sleek Modernist post-war liners. The shift in passenger from those driven to immigrate, often by necessity, to the wealthy leisure traveller led to rapid transformations in promotion, architecture, interior design and even the engineering of the ships themselves, as companies and countries completed to provide the most luxurious, safest and fastest liners possible. Dan Finamore is Russell W. Knight Curator of Maritime Art and History, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Ghislaine Wood is Deputy Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.
Notes: "Accompanies the exhibition of the same name organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-282) and index.