Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a sense that the conditions of modernity called for fundamentally new means of expression. Art Nouveau emerged in a world transformed by industrialisation, urbanisation and increasingly rapid means of transnational exchange, bringing about new ways of living, working and creating.This book is structured around key themes for understanding the contexts behind Art Nouveau, including new materials and technologies, colonialism and imperialism, the rise of the 'modern woman', the rise of the professional designer and the role of the patron-collector. It also explores the new ideas that inspired Art Nouveau: nature and the natural sciences, world arts and world religions, psychology and new visions for the modern self. Ashby explores the movement through 41 case studies of artists and designers, buildings, interiors, paintings, graphic arts, glass, ceramics and jewellery, drawn from a wide range of countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-11-18
Mått188 x 246 x 18 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350061149

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One1. The 19th-century Roots of Art Nouveau2. A New Style for a New Age3. Sites of Art Nouveau: New Forms of Exhibition4. Designers and Manufacturers: How Art Nouveau was Made and Sold5. Art Nouveau on Paper: Print and Graphic Art6. Art Nouveau Patrons and NetworksConclusion: Art Nouveau in ViennaPart Two7. The Power of Nature8. The Global Reach of Colonialism9. Visions of Other Worlds and Hopes for the Future10. Psychology, Sex and the Modern Self11. Dream Spaces: The Art Nouveau Interior12. New Art for a Changing WorldConclusionBibliographyIndex

Ashby’s book examines afresh the complex origins, conditions and manifestations of International Art Nouveau through a series of evocative case studies drawn from a range of national contexts and organised around a series of compelling themes. This complicates and challenges our understanding of this key period in modern art, architecture and design and opens up fascinating new insights into the ways in which diverse historical actors grabbled with a rapidly changing world in their search for “a modern style for a modern age”