Art Nouveau

Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

Dr Charlotte Ashby (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-06114-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Charlotte Ashby is an art and design historian and Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She is the author of Modernism in Scandinavia (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Imagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870s-1920s (2019).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One
1. The 19th-century Roots of Art Nouveau
2. A New Style for a New Age
3. Sites of Art Nouveau: New Forms of Exhibition
4. Designers and Manufacturers: How Art Nouveau was Made and Sold
5. Art Nouveau on Paper: Print and Graphic Art
6. Art Nouveau Patrons and Networks
Conclusion: Art Nouveau in Vienna

Part Two
7. The Power of Nature
8. The Global Reach of Colonialism
9. Visions of Other Worlds and Hopes for the Future
10. Psychology, Sex and the Modern Self
11. Dream Spaces: The Art Nouveau Interior
12. New Art for a Changing World
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	85 bw illus and 2 x 8pp colour plate sections with 31 colour illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	188 x 246 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-350-06114-X / 135006114X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-06114-9 / 9781350061149
Zustand	Neuware