This two-part column focuses less on a specific show or event, but reflects on this idea of the avant-garde to observe its dramatically shifting application to art movements and practices. The first part focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth century references with the second part examining its relevance to media art.
Art Deco is the term retroactively applied to a style of decorative arts and architecture that predominated in America from the late 1920s up until the .
“Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde” features more than 50 works that showcase the rise and fall of the geometric, bold, machine-focused international style originally known as Modernism.