Art Deco
Some have found a kinship between Art Deco and Expressionistic work. Art Deco is a slippery term describing a diverse design idiom that encompassed everything from graphics to ceramics, furniture, and architecture continued to be popular in America, especially for skyscrapers and theaters, through the 1930s. As a style, it has only been recognized since the 1960s and so did not even make it into Reyner Banham’s Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960); thus evaluation of the work remains incomplete.