EGYPTIAN REVIVAL IN ART DECO

The twenties brought on a time of excess and greed. They had just come out of a war and fashion, architecture, literature, dance, music and jewelry all radically changed into a new style with influences from all over the world; Mayan, Chinese, and especially Egyptian. Egyptian-inspired architecture styles were used for  grave markers, courthouses, prisons, funerary sculptures and structures as the style was deemed appropriate for them seeing because Egyptian architecture had for the Victorians connotations of eternity. Not only did the Egyptian Revival show itself in architecture, but in 1927 created a clock inspired from a gate with a wall built around an Egyptian temple. This clock was made to fit in with the Egyptian popularity in the 1920's. Many illustrations of Egyptian architecture, jewelry and poetry were created that showed the modern Western fascination with the exotic wonders of Ancient Egypt.

Cartier Egyptian revival striking clock of the Gate of Khons at Karnak.

Egyptian Revival mausoleum, Forrest Home Cemetry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Egyptian Revival prison in New Jersey.

References:

Egyptian Revival in Art Deco | Aileen Mason - Academia.edu. 2013. Egyptian Revival in Art Deco | Aileen Mason - Academia.edu. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.academia.edu/1551501/Egyptian_Revival_in_Art_Deco. [Accessed 15 May 2013].

Cartier Egyptian revival striking clock of the Gate of Khons at Karnak | Flickr - Photo Sharing!. 2013. Cartier Egyptian revival striking clock of the Gate of Khons at Karnak | Flickr - Photo Sharing!. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sonomapicman/4423183235/. [Accessed 15 May 2013].

File:Egyptian Revival mausoleum, Forest Home Cemetery.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. 2013. File:Egyptian Revival mausoleum, Forest Home Cemetery.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. [ONLINE] Available at:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Revival_mausoleum,_Forest_Home_Cemetery.jpg. [Accessed 15 May 2013].