Art Nouveau

Name: Art Nouveau
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SKU: 9781350061149
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Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation

By Dr Charlotte Ashby

Summary

Art Nouveau offers a fresh overview of the international Art Nouveau movement, capturing its role as a search for a new style suited to the modern age. Set against the backdrop of industrialisation, urbanisation and fast transnational exchange, the book explores how these forces shaped new ways of living, working and creating. Dr Charlotte Ashby examines key contexts including new materials and technologies, colonialism, the rise of the modern woman, professional designers and patrons. Drawing on 41 case studies spanning artists, architecture, interiors, and decorative arts from various countries, the book highlights Art Nouveau's inspirations from nature, world cultures, psychology and modern self-perceptions.
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Art Nouveau

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This book is ideal for students, scholars and enthusiasts of modern art, architecture, design and cultural history interested in the social and global contexts shaping Art Nouveau.

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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.

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Sabine Wieber of the University of Glasgow praises the book for examining the complex origins and diverse manifestations of International Art Nouveau through evocative case studies, challenging conventional understandings and offering new insights into the search for "a modern style for a modern age." Fresh and original, the study links Art Nouveau's formal innovation with broader social, political and economic transformations, including imperialism, psychoanalysis, the New Woman, and changing patronage, promising to change how we view the movement and its contemporary relevance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350061149

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 85 bw illus and 2 x 8pp colour plate sections with 31 colour illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Dr Charlotte Ashby Non-Fiction

About the Author

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).