Material Culture and Decadence: Art Deco The Great War 1914-1918 9 December 2014

We looked at how the optimism of the Art Nouveau period was crushed by the start of the First World War and how the mechanics of the technology, used in the war, filtered down into everyday life when the war ended. 

  

The Art Deco movement was more of a visual experience than a movement.  It expressed the start of optimism again after the war ended.  Wealthy people began to travel and advertising was used by companies to entice custom.  Graphic design became important at this time as in the posters of the time.

 

 

Art Deco Poster

1920's Art Deco French stove