• Changing Roles for Women

    From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, women’s opportunities for education and employment expanded steadily though unequally. By the 1920s, the increased availability of consumer goods and the rise of film and radio produced a popular culture that celebrated and, at the same time, undermined the independent, educated, and sexually expressive young woman. She was encouraged to […]

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  • Modern But Not Mainstream

    Although people may associate the “Roaring Twenties” with the glamour of Art Deco, modernist design was not the dominant style of the period.

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  • American Modern Design in the 1920s

    Who defined and accepted it?

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