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''Art Deco of the 20s and 30s'' is an art history book by English historian
Bevis Hillier Bevis Hillier (born 28 March 1940) is an English art historian, author and journalist. He has written on Art Deco, and also a biography of John Betjeman, Sir John Betjeman. Life and work Hillier was born in Redhill, Surrey, where the family liv ...
. It was initially published in 1968 by Studio Vista. The author discusses how the style of
cubism Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
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expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...
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Ancient Egyptian art Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptu ...
, Mayan art, and so on influenced Art Deco, and how Art Deco itself changed the style of disciplines as various as modern architecture, jewelry, ceramics, tableware, metalwork, glass, textiles, and many others.


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#What is Art Deco? #How Art Deco Developed #The Interregnum #Influence of Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Vorticism. #Influence of the Russian Ballet #Influence of American Indian Art #Influence of Ancient Egyptian Art #The Twenties #The Thirties #The Arts of Art Deco #The Revival


Influence

According to historian Thomas Mellins, it was the publication of this book in 1968 that popularised the term ''Art Deco''. Otherwise, the genre may have been referred to as ''Art Moderne''.


See also

*'' Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties'' * Art Deco Jewelry
estate jewelry Antique Jewelry or Estate Jewelry (or Estate Jewellery), in a formal sense, is jewelry and often timepiece A clock or a timepiece is a device used to measure and indicate time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting t ...
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Art Deco stamps Art Deco stamps are postage stamps designed in the Art Deco style, which was a popular international design style in the 1920s through the 1930s. The style is marked by the use of "geometric motifs, curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines, o ...
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List of Art Deco architecture This is a list of buildings that are examples of Art Deco: * List of Art Deco architecture in Africa * List of Art Deco architecture in Asia * List of Art Deco architecture in Europe * List of Art Deco architecture in the Americas ** List of Art D ...
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Paris architecture of the Belle Époque The architecture of Paris created during the '' Belle Époque'', between 1871 and the beginning of the First World War in 1914, was notable for its variety of different styles, from neo-Byzantine and neo-Gothic to classicism, Art Nouveau and Ar ...
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Paris between the Wars (1919–1939) After the First World War ended in November 1918, to jubilation and profound relief in Paris, unemployment surged, prices soared, and rationing continued. Parisian households were limited to 300 grams of bread per day, and meat only four days a ...


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