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Article: Enough high-minded art! Just give us a sunburst. The first Art Deco show in 30 years looks at an era when even a meat slicer could be art - or at least pretty.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 11, 2003
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Byline: Christopher Andreae Special to The Christian Science Monitor
LONDON -- Art Deco was the sort of style that gives eclecticism a good name.
That, at least, appears to be the thesis behind a major exhibition, "Art Deco 1910 - 1939," which arrives this fall in Toronto from London's Victoria & Albert Museum (through July 20). It later travels to San Francisco and Boston.
It is the first show in 30 years to be devoted to the widespread decorative arts style of the 1920s and 1930s. It presents Art Deco as stylistically so inclusive in its choice of design sources that the label seems to apply to the wonderful diversity of an era rather than to ...