Alphonse Mucha--the spirit of art nouveau / Victor Arwas, Jana Brabcová-Orlíková, Anna Dvořák ; with an introduction by Ronald F. Lipp and Suzanne Jackson and essays by Quentin Bajac ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arwas, Victor.

Contributor:

Mucha, Alphonse, 1860-1939.

Brabcová-Orlíková, Jana.

Dvořák, Anna.

Art Services International.

San Diego Museum of Art.

Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum.

Norton Museum of Art.

North Carolina Museum of Art.

Philbrook Museum of Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mucha, Alphonse, 1860-1939--Exhibitions.

Mucha, Alphonse, 1860-1939.

Decoration and ornament--Art nouveau--Exhibitions.

Decoration and ornament--Art nouveau.

Exhibitions.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

344 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Spirit of art nouveau

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Va. : Art Services International, 1998.

Summary:

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists working in Paris at the turn of the century. His distinctive and original posters and his decorative panels in le style Mucha became almost synonymous with French Art Nouveau. The admirer and iconographer of Sarah Bernhardt, he was also well known as the creator of familiar advertisements and as a book illustrator. Yet there was much more to Mucha's achievement than this. At the height of his career as a decorative artist, he became convinced that art should serve ideas, he became chief artistic and cultural adviser to the interwar Czech government, and he completed a major and controversial fresco cycle, the Slav Epic, as well as portraits and large symbolic paintings.

This book -- the first full-scale treatment of Mucha's oeuvre -- includes discussions and reproductions of paintings, posters, panneaux decoratifs, pastels, drawings, and illustrations from throughout his career. In addition, the authors provide essays on Mucha's Paris years; his association with Sarah Bernhardt; the importance of American patronage on his later work; his graphic and painterly techniques; and the problems connected with the conservation of the large canvases.

This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Mucha's work that will tour the United States, beginning in San Diego in 1998.

Notes:

"Accompanies an exhibition organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia"--T.p. verso.

"Participating museums: San Diego Museum of Art; Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; North Carlina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis"--[P. 6].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-341).

ISBN:

0883971232

0300074190

0883971305

OCLC:

37987179