Art nouveau : art, architecture and design in transformation.

Ashby, Charlotte.

Art nouveau : art, architecture and design in transformation. - 1 online resource (283 pages)

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What was Art Nouveau? -- Art and the conditions of modernity -- About this book -- Part I: The Structures of Art Nouveau -- Chapter 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) -- Chapter 2: A new style for a new age: Innovations in form, materials and ornament -- Gaud�i's G�uell 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 -- Gall�e's On Such a Night as This: Material becomes ornament -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6: Art Nouveau patrons and networks -- Siegfried Bing and the Maison de l'Art Nouveau -- Justus Brinckmann and museum curation -- Princess Tenisheva: The World of Art and the Talashkino artist's colony.

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