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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashby, Charlotte, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art nouveau.

Art nouveau (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

1 online resource (xi, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : AVA ACADEMIA, 2021.

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:

Introduction: new horizons: art, architecture and design at the Fin-de-sic̈le

1: In what style should we build? Form and ornament

2. Nature and new forms

3. Myths and legends: symbolism and visions of other worlds

4. The patron-collector

5. Print: the explosion of visual culture

6. The designer and the manufacturer

7. Art nouveau and transportation

8. Psychology and the modern mind in crisis

9. Dream spaces: the Fin-de-siecle interior

10. Art nouveau and the modern woman

11. Colonialism, imperialism and transnational art nouveau

12. Art nouveau sculptures and the modern body

Conclusion. The multiple and the elite in a world of change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350061187

1350061182

9781350061163

1350061166

OCLC:

1238133237