This is art made to decorate the body ... When and why did the Japanese "deco era" end? The very last [part] of my essay in the catalog says that really, the last gasp of deco would be [sometime ...

Nationalism was on the rise during these decades, and the sleek, refined forms of Art Deco ... on which Deco Japan feeds: it is a gorgeous survey of the decorative and fine arts made in this ...

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, brochures and ...

Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park is an honest-to-goodness art deco palace, and this summer, it’s hosting more than 200 deco objects made in Japan during the interwar years—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 ...

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 ...

"And it doesn’t just apply to France, but to objects made in Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world — there’s Japanese Art Deco, South American Art Deco...” The aesthetic ...

Japanese art deco — what in the world could that be ... The exhibition (organized by Art Services International) is made up of 130 works ranging from posters and paintings to kimonos, vases ...

Its latest exhibition, "Fantaisie Merveilleuse: Classicism in French Art Deco," is so aesthetically aligned with the style and look of the Teien — itself an art deco building — that the art ...

TOKYO -- An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses ...