| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 100 === The main purpose of this dissertation is to explore how Art Deco design, a style popular in 1920’s Europe and America, developed and was expressed in Taiwanese design during the middle Japanese colonial period. This study first looks at the history and origin of Art Deco design and summarizes its major stylistic attributes. Hereafter, it delves into modern Art Deco since the time of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, and its development in Japan during this period. Finally, this dissertation examines how Art Deco, popular in Europe and the United States during World War II, was disseminated to Taiwan via Japanese colonial rule through an examination of architectural and graphic designs during the colonial period, as well as documentation from Taiwanese society at this time. The effects of Taiwanese colonial social development and popular culture are also included in this examination, as well as account of the particular characteristics of Art Deco design style during the middle colonial period. This research discovers Taiwan’s Art Deco designs amalgamate western Art Deco style, elements adopted from Japanese culture, Taiwan’s indigenous artistic vocabulary, and other elements, to form a diverse visual culture of its own. The conclusion and suggestions affirms that Art Deco design in the middle Japanese colonial period has three main conceptual threads: (1) how Japan’s colonial policies toward Taiwan and its national modernization policies led to the development of Taiwanese Art Deco; (2) the visual style which materialized after Taiwanese designers incorporated indigenous artistic vocabulary and local styles with the western Art Deco they had learned; (3) the elements of western civilization which Japan studied and later brought to the colony of Taiwan, thus creating an avenue of access via which Art Deco could become popular in Taiwan. This study wishes to assist in the construction of Taiwanese design history through historical research. In accomplishing this goal, this dissertation undertakes a relational examination concerning Art Deco as it developed in the west and east contemporaneously, and Art Deco’s the connection to the temporal flow of popular culture.
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