FEBRUARY 13 – JULY 18, 2015
The first exhibition dedicated to Japanese Art Deco shown outside Tokyo, Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 – 1945 provides dramatic examples of the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design that defined an iconic style long associated with Japan.
The first exhibition dedicated to Japanese Art Deco shown outside Tokyo, Deco Japan provides dramatic examples of the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design that defined an iconic style long associated with Japan.
The exhibition conveys the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan during the Taishô and early Shôwa epochs (1912-1945). In these pre-war and war eras, artists and patrons created a Japanese modernism that signaled simultaneously the nation