International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1939 brought a sharp end to the Art Deco period. International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts () was a World's fair held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925. It was designed by the French government to highlight the new "style moderne" of architecture, interior decoration, furniture, glass, jewelry and other decorative arts in Europe and throughout the world. Many ideas of the international avant-garde in the fields of architecture and applied arts were presented for the first time at the Exposition. The event took place between
The Well of Loneliness a study of lesbian women in Salt Lake City in the 1920s and '30s, nearly all regretted the publication of "The Well" because it had drawn unwanted attention to them. In the 1970s and early '80s, when lesbian feminists rejected the butch and femme identities that Hall's novel had helped to define, writers like Jane Rule and Blanche Wiesen Cook criticised "The Well" for defining lesbianism in terms of masculinity, as well as for presenting lesbian life as "joyless". Furthermore, "The Well" arguably embodies what modern readers may regard as misogynistic and biphobic ideas in its presentation of the femme