Art Deco
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Art Deco emerged in the early decades of the twentieth-century within a world recalibrating itself after rupture. Across Europe and the United States of America, architects, designers, and craftsmen turned away from the elaborate historicism of the nineteenth-century, seeking instead a visual…
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When we turn to the history of a city such as Gwalior, narratives tend to coalesce around its monumental architecture — its fort, palaces, and temples — structures that articulate the authority and aspirations of ruling elites. This emphasis produces what may be described as a vertical…
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