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Samurai, Ghosts and Lovers: Yoshitoshi's Complete 100 Aspects of the Moon, is on view Feb. 22 - Sept. 13, 2020, at the Dayton Art Institute.
But when he discovered a Japanese deco vase at an art and antique show, he knew he was on to something. “These things don’t exist in a vacuum,” Levenson says.
Robert Levenson learned to appreciate Art Deco in the 1970s and early 1980s when he was living in Miami. But the European and American Art Deco pieces he saw in shops were far too expensive.
As you know — or I think your question indicates — “art deco” is a retrospectively art historical term. It was created in the 1960s to refer to a broad movement in the 1920s and ’30s.
A treehouse in a backyard against the U.S.-Mexico border, built by the Japanese art collective Chim Pom, functions as a wry viewpoint over one of the most politicized borders in the world.
Starting Monday morning, St. Petersburg residents will be able to see Japanese art deco in the form of a 35-foot ad on the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority's Route 32 bus as it navigates its ...
Art Deco as a term only entered the popular lexicon in the early 1960s, to emphasize the range of styles and sensibilities that grew out of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et ...
Organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, “Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco” continues at the Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S. Greenwood Ave., through June 20. 773-702-0200.
Oliver Moss, director of Asian art dealership Sydney L Moss, says the market for most Japanese works “took a blow” after Japan’s 1991 economic crash. Meanwhile, Chinese art has become pricey.