Ann Marguerite Tartsinis
Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is a scholar of twentieth-century American art and fashion. From 2011 to 2016, she was a curator at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York where she organized several design and material culture exhibitions.
Tartsinis, Ann Marguerite
Tartsinis, Ann Marguerite
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Description: An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design,...
Selected Biographies
PublisherBard Graduate Center
Description: An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design,...
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00254
In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energize the American textile industry.  Curators sought to innovate a distinctly “American” design idiom drawing on a more universal “primitive” language. Ethnographic objects were included in study rooms; designers gained access to storage rooms; and museum artifacts were loaned to design houses and department stores. In order to attract designers and reluctant manufacturers, who quickly responded, collections were supplemented with specimens including fur garments from Siberia, Persian costumes, and Javanese textiles. This book positions the project at the AMNH in the broader narrative of early 20th-century design education in New York, which includes the roles of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Newark Museum.
Print publication date October 2013 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300199437
EISBN 9780300264562
Illustrations 111
Print Status in print