Roaring Into the Future: New York 1925-35 FINAL Installation Checklist
Roaring into the Future: New York 1925-35 FINAL Installation checklist Introduction During the 10 years that took America from effervescent heights to the invented new forms to suit a modern American lifestyle. Although depths of economic devastation, New York State transformed the nation. this period is often called Art Deco today, the term was not Roaring into the Future: New York 1925-35 is a pioneering exploration adopted until 1968.New York State’s artists, architects, and that celebrates the Empire State as the driving force behind the creation designers played a pivotal role in making the State the epicenter of 20th-century modernism. From Buffalo to Brooklyn, artists, designers, of modernism. Modernism, often called Modernistic, in New York and manufacturers generated avant-garde art, fashion, technology, was not one style but rather it was an expression of a vital decorative arts, and music that resulted in the century’s most important youthful spirit that embraced the new. Modernism appeared in artistic revolution. elegant Art Moderne designs based on classical historical precedents, faceted skyscrapers and objects influenced by When France invited the United States to send their new and original Cubism, brawny Machine Age wares using the vocabulary of designs to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décortifs et Industriels machine parts, and sleek Streamlined products reflecting Modernes, the World’s Fair held in Paris in 1925, Secretary of Commerce aerodynamic principles of speed. Across the State, New Yorkers Herbert Hoover declined because he could not find any modern designed, manufactured, and distributed new, nationally American goods. However, the Fair proved to be a tremendous catalyst influential works, often made with innovative materials, that for modern design in the United States via those Americans who visited reflected the seismic post-World War I shifts in social customs, the Exposition or saw its highlights, mainly French, in an exhibition that women’s rights, race relations, and technological discoveries.
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