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Japan’s art deco interlude Glimpse the breathtaking range of Japanese "deco era" art -- highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between ...
An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials ...
Japan might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of Art Deco, but Ezra Pound's 1934 edict to 'make it new' resonated just as deeply there as it did in cultural capitals like ...
That’s the significance of “Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945,” a major show now at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach. In addition to hundreds of paintings, ...
If Japan isn’t the country that springs to mind when you think of Art Deco, it’s hardly surprising. The Japanese version of the international style of the 1920s and 1930s has been rediscovered ...
Japanese art deco — what in the world could that be? This is not a unique question. As an exhibition of Japanese art deco objects has traveled around the country during the past year, ...
Art Deco fashion came to be characterised by geometric and clean shapes, bold colours and high-quality materials. ... handicrafts, and other artwork from Japanese and foreign museums. ...
But true Art Deco furniture goes beyond pure luxury — and it goes beyond the 1920s, Nick Dawes, senior vice president of special collections at Heritage Auctions, explains. It's also not so easy ...
However, there is also Japanese Art Deco, Indian Art Deco, and you can also find style expressions in Brazil, Argentina, the Philippines and Australia. In short, it is a style that gained ...