This lecture is based on the assumption that Art Deco offers a unique lens into the globalizing processes and networks along which architects, objects, and ideas circulated.
This lecture proposes that the circulation, development, and consumption of Art Deco objects, buildings, films, and art works represents an unprecedented compression of space and time. Art Deco architects freely borrowed and mixed motifs, forms, and visual cues from architectures and material cultures of ancient and distant civilizations—Egyptian, African, East Asian, Mughal, and Pre-Columbian.
The Art Deco palette also included contemporary European Avant-Garde architecture and visual culture. Critics label this kitsch, however, this very eclectic and excessive aesthetic of Art Deco created buildings that represent the collapsing of cultural and temporal compartments—representing a dizzying global pool of knowledge, travel, and mobility.
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