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Article: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ART DECO AMERICA The design style that swept Europe in the Twenties and Thirties took on a whole new energy when it crossed the Atlantic. From elegant skyscrapers to entire streets, AOIFE O'RIORDAIN explains why the US went Art Deco mad
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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WHAT EXACTLY IS ART DECO?
Art Deco is the name of a style of architecture and decoration
that flourished all over the world, particularly in Europe and
America between the First and Second World Wars. It quickly came to
represent the spirit and glamour of the modern age.
HOW DID IT ALL START?
The clean lines of Art Deco were the perfect antidote and a
natural progression from the overtly florid decoration of the Art
Nouveau movement. However, the phrase Art Deco was not coined until
1968, by the English art critic and historian Bevis Hillier. Until
then it had been referred to in various ways: Moderne, Jazz Moderne,
Zig Zag Moderne. The high point of the Art Deco movement was the
Paris ...