Art nouveau
Sembach, Klaus-Jürgen2016
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For a fruitful period between the 1880s and the First World War, European and North American culture deferred to nature. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau (New Art) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration. Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. With a spirit of willful reform, its practitioners sought to distance themselves from the imitative historicism that characterized much 19th-century art and replace it with undulating, decorative qualities. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.
Main title:
Art nouveau / Klaus-Jürgen Sembach.
Author:
Sembach, Klaus-Jürgen, author
Imprint:
Köln : Taschen, 2016.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations
ISBN:
9783836520966 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.0349709.0349 ZZZ709.0349 SEM
Language:
English
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BRN:
1561626