{"product_id":"czech-secession-by-petr-wittlich-9788024651330","title":"Czech Secession","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lavishly illustrated exploration of forward-looking Czech art around the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough it’s less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna, 1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siècle cultural centre as its Mittel European peers. At the end of the nineteenth century, the city found itself home to a fervent coterie of young visual artists all deliberately pushing against—indeed, seeking to secede from—the traditional artistic structures of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book traces Czech Secessionist art from the turn of the twentieth century by following its three main stylistic schools: naturalistic-impressionistic, symbolist, and ornamental-decorative. Though these styles developed separately, their symbiotic relationship gives the art a deeper significance and disrupts the traditional understanding of Art Nouveau and Secessionist art as an eclectic decorative style that faded away at the beginning of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with more than three hundred colour plates, \u003cem\u003eCzech Secession\u003c\/em\u003e is a fittingly lush tribute to one city’s underappreciated and forward-looking artistic blossoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455541723372,"sku":"9788024651330","price":114.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/916zD9_Q2_L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774781146","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/czech-secession-by-petr-wittlich-9788024651330","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}