Visual and Performing Arts
The Avant-Garde and the Conservative in Lighting Design: The Modernism of Walter W. Kantack
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Walter W. Kantack had a prominent career as a lighting fixture designer in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. While he was well known and respected for his Modernist work, he was also highly successful as a designer of period-revival fixtures. These opposing design aesthetics represent many deeper levels of contradiction in his career, and are part of the reason that Kantack has inhabited the remotest corners of the American Modernist design canon.
Publication Title
Studies in the Decorative Arts
Publication Date
2007
Volume
14
Issue
2
First Page
117
Last Page
144
ISSN
1069-8825
DOI
10.1086/652881
Keywords
lighting design, modernism, Walter W. Kantack, avant-garde
Repository Citation
Wilson, Kristina, "The Avant-Garde and the Conservative in Lighting Design: The Modernism of Walter W. Kantack" (2007). Visual and Performing Arts. 37.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_visual_performing_arts/37
