Art nouveau : art, architecture and design in transformation / Charlotte Ashby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashby, Charlotte, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art nouveau.

Art and society--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--History--20th century.

Architecture and society--History--19th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: What was Art Nouveau?

Art and the conditions of modernity

About this book

pt. 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 Giiell 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

Galle'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 VArt 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 Werkstatte

pt. 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

Rene-Jules Lalique: The beauties of nature

The raw materials of Art Nouveau

8. The global reach of colonialism

The Sphinx Mysterieux 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 Wyspiariski: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ashby, Charlotte, 1979- Art nouveau

ISBN:

9781350061149

135006114X

9781350061156

1350061158

OCLC:

1242022326