Summary: Variously cast as the embodiment of the roaring twenties, jazz, Hollywood glamour and the machine age, art deco rapidly became a global style, spanning a wide array of visual media, from architecture, sculpture, painting, and print-making to film, fashion, industrial design, and the decorative arts. Typically characterized by low relief carving, historical pastiche, streamlined, setback, symmetrical forms, bold colors and stylized floral and geometric motifs, art deco became a conspicuous symbol of modernity, whether artisanally crafted as luxury objects for wealthy collectors or industrially produced for mass markets. Scholarly interest in art deco as a kind of middle-of-the-road modernism� has proliferated rapidly over the past fifty years, spanning different academic disciplines from art, architectural and design history to film, literary, fashion and gender studies as well as different geographic regions. This volume charts the evolution of this scholarly activity, highlighting past accomplishments as well as promising new directions in order to provide an informative guide to the existing state of the field. The 24 chapters are presented in four sections, each one addressing a key conceptual problematic structuring the art deco field. Each chapter approaches the section�s problematic from a different perspective in order to foreground the current state of research and academic debates in the field. By exploring conceptual problematics, the volume highlights the slipperiness� of art deco, which often evades neat categorization, and suggests that art deco offers a unique angle from which to examine the experiences of modernity. (^Available December 2018, further details forthcoming^)

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