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Art Déco Architecture in Cyprus from the 1930s to the 1950s

Marko Kiessel


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Abstract

This paper classifies the Cypriot Art Déco and addresses it, for the first time, as the dominating modernist variant of the 1930s-1940s in Cyprus. We argue that, out of several Art Déco trends, the Mendelsohnian streamline moderne is by far the prevalent and is characterized by a common, rounded architectural morphology. Main sources of this ”Mediterranean Art Déco”, more or less immediate, are primarily France, England, Athens, and a now partially anonymous local architectural elite.

Keywords

Art Déco; Cyprus; Modernism

Hrčak ID:

84151

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/84151

Publication date:

14.6.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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