Art nouveau : art, architecture and design in transformation
Title:
Art nouveau : art, architecture and design in transformation
Author:
Ashby, Charlotte, 1979- author.
ISBN:
9781350061149
9781350061156
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Physical Description:
xii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction. What was Art Nouveau? ; Art and the conditions of modernity ; About this book -- Part I: The Structures of Art Nouveau. 1. The nineteenth-century roots of Art Nouveau. The Gothic Revival, design reform and the Oxford Museum of Natural History (1860) ; Aestheticism and Whistler's Peacock Room (1876-7) ; Nature, science and art and Liljefors's Woodcocks; Red-Backed Shrike; Thrush in Its Nest; Preying Hawk; Sparrows (1888) -- 2. A new style for a new age : innovations in form, materials and ornament. Gaudi's G©ơell Palace : form, materials and experience ; Lechner's Museum of Applied Arts : the invention of national ornament ; Sullivan's Guaranty Building : new ornament for new modes of construction ; Parallel developments in applied art ; Gall©♭'s On Such a Night as This : material becomes ornament -- 3. Sites of Art Nouveau : new forms of exhibition. Brussels, L'Art moderne and the Les XX group ; The Munich Secession ; The 1900 Paris World's Fair -- 4. Designers and manufacturers : how Art Nouveau was made and sold. Charles Robert Ashbee and the Guild of Handicrafts ; Louis Comfort Tiffany, Clara Driscoll and Tiffany Studios ; Peter Behrens, Darmstadt and AEG -- 5. Art Nouveau on paper : print and graphic art. Odilon Redon and the artist print ; Aubrey Beardsley : the artist as illustrator ; Elizabeth Shippen Green : Art Nouveau and commercial illustration ; International art and design journals -- 6. Art Nouveau patrons and networks. Siegfried Bing and the Maison de l'Art Nouveau ; Justus Brinckmann and museum curation ; Princess Tenisheva : the World of Art and the Talashkino artist's colony ; Sarah Bernhardt : celebrity and patronage -- Conclusion to Part I: Art Nouveau in Vienna. The Vienna Secession ; The Wiener Werkst©Þtte --
Part II: The content of Art Nouveau. 7. The power of nature. Victor Horta : Tassel House and the jungle in the city ; August Endell : Elvira Studio and the wilder shores of life ; France Macdonald : The pond and the threat of fecundity ; Ren©♭-Jules Lalique : the beauties of nature ; The raw materials of Art Nouveau -- 8. The global reach of colonialism. The Sphinx Myst©♭rieux and the performance of colonial power ; India Art Nouveau and pan-Asianism ; Dutch Art Nouveau and Javanese Batik ; Transnational Art Nouveau and cultural exchange -- 9. Visions of other worlds and hopes for the future. Stanislaw Wyspia¿¿ski : visions of a future Polish nation ; Mary Seton Watts and the cosmos in ornament ; Hilma af Klint : spiritualist visions -- 10. Psychology, sex and the modern self. Fernand Khnopff : the journey into the self ; Camille Claudel : the creative labour of the artist ; Edvard Munch : trials of isolation and connection ; Elena Luksch-Makowsky : gender and creativity ; Magnus Enckell, George Minne and the adolescent male nude -- 11. Dream spaces : the Art Nouveau interior. Fyodor Shekhtel : Ryabushinsky House and a kingdom beneath the waves ; Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald : Fritz Waerndorfer's music room and the performance of beauty ; The light of other worlds : dreams of a nation ; Otto Wagner : St Leopold's Church and the healing power of art -- 12. Conclusion: New art for a changing world. Art Nouveau : public art and collective identity ; Art Nouveau worldwide ; Art Nouveau : decline and evolution ; Conclusion
Abstract:
"Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau, Charlotte Ashby argues, represented the search for a new style for a new age, and hence a response to the conditions of modernity, in a world transformed by developments such as industrialisation, the growth of new cities, and the movements of populations into these cities, bringing about new ways of living, working and making that were felt to be fundamentally different to what had gone before. The book is structured around key themes for understanding the aesthetics and contexts of Art Nouveau, including form and ornament, symbolism and psychology, new forms of transport and communication, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman' and the role of the patron-collector and the professional designer. Ashby explores the movement through 65 varied case studies of architecture, interiors, paintings, furniture, graphic arts, glass and ceramics by artists and designers, drawn from eighteen countries from a wide range of countries"-- Provided by publisher
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