Art Deco Crosses the Atlantic Ocean - Elegance and Speed in Turbulent Times

Tuesday, July 16, 2024 From 6:30 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2024-07-16 18:30:00 2024-07-16 20:00:00 Art Deco Crosses the Atlantic Ocean - Elegance and Speed in Turbulent Times Engage in the history of Art as this illustrated lecture will consider the development of the Art Deco style on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, its social significance and later imprint. French Library, 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA America/New_York

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A new style appeared in France before the First World War and blossomed in the 1920s.

It reached America after the famous Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes of 1925. It fostered a new approach to crafts and more particularly to architecture and industrial arts, shaping cars, household objects, books and a myriad object of everyday life.

The times were tumultuous, from the Roaring Twenties to the Depression, from cries for social reform to the harbingers of the coming conflict.
Throughout this period, designs and manufacturing, buildings and homes were being transformed by forward-looking engineers, architects, ship-builders, ébénistes, graphic artists, advertisers, weavers and jewelers.

This illustrated lecture will consider the development of the Art Deco style on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, its social significance and later imprint.

Join expert Madeleine Deschamps while she explores the history of the Art Deco.

This presentation will be followed by a Q&A and a glass of wine.

In person event in English.

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Member

$15

Non-member

$25

About Madeleine Deschamps

Madeleine Deschamps is an art historian specializing in the Decorative Arts and in Art Crafts, Métiers d’art, and an interior designer with specialties in high-end residences and hospitality. She has a doctorate in art history from the Sorbonne and has taught at the Sorbonne, the Ecole du Louvre, in the Master's Programs of the Smithsonian Institution and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, at New York University, the Bard Graduate Center, Parsons School of Design, and in a number of American university programs.

She has written and contributed to books on the Decorative Arts and on American art, both in France and in the United States. She published La Peinture américaine, les Mythes et la Matière and contributed to L'Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts in France, 1789-1989. She is also the author of Empire which was awarded the Grand Prix de la Fondation Napoléon.

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