Art Deco: The Aesthetic of Appropriation
Art Deco (from Arts Décoratifs) loosely refers to an aesthetic that infiltrated much of the visual arts in the decades between the two World Wars (1910-1939). The sociopolitical turbulence manifested itself visually and artists tried to negotiate between several contradictory ideologies: modernism, traditionalism and exoticism. There were some artists who paid homage to advances made in technology and engineering […]Read Post ›