Art nouveau : 50 works of art you should know

Hodge, Susie 1960- (author.).

Summary: "A new edition to Prestel's popular "50s" series, this collection of the finest examples of art nouveau shows how the movement impacted every artistic discipline. The heyday of the art nouveau style was relatively short, spanning the decades immediately before and after 1900. However it was a tremendously important period, not only for its radical shift away from the academic and romantic movements of the late 19th century, but also for its embrace of nature and natural forms. This authoritative, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book explores fifty of the most important works of the Art Nouveau style. From Mackmurdo's jacket design of Christopher Wren's City Churches to Sykes' sculpture, The Spirit of Ecstasy, each work is presented in double-page spreads that chronologically trace Art Nouveau's development and breadth--from architecture, Gaudí's Sagrada Familia, and graphic arts, Toulouse-Lautrec's poster advertising the Divan Japonais, to home décor, lamps by Tiffany and Daum Frères, and painting, Munch's Madonnas and Walter Crane's Neptune's Horses. Each entry includes a full-page illustration and concise explanatory texts. An introductory essay on the history and legacy of art nouveau, along with brief biographies of the artists featured in the book, make this a comprehensive yet compact reference work."--Www.amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 3791381288
ISBN: 9783791381282
Physical Description: print
125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Publisher: Munich ; Prestel, [2015]
Copyright: ©2015

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Fretwork-backed chair / Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo -- Wren's city churches / Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo -- Sagrada Familia / Antoni Gaudí -- Divan japonais / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- April / Maurice Denis -- What! Are you jealous? Aha oe feii? / Paul Gauguin -- Parakeets and goldfish bowl / Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Hôtel Tassel / Victor Horta -- Favrile vase / Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Love among the ruins / Edward Coley Burne-Jones -- Madonna / Edvard Munch -- Isolde / Aubrey Beardsley -- The whiplash wall hanging / Hermann Obrist -- Zodiac / Alphonse Mucha -- Le chat noir cabaret / Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen -- Loïe Fuller at the Folies Bergère / Jules Chéret -- High-backed chair / Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Secession building / Joseph Maria Olbrich -- Dragonfly woman corsage ornament / René Lalique -- The arts: Dance / Alphonse Mucha -- Tropon / Henry Van de Velde -- Dancing girls / Koloman Moser -- Entrance to the Métro Porte Dauphine / Hector Guimard -- Karlsplatz underground station / Otto Wagner -- Glass vase / Emile Gallé -- Glass and iron lamp / Daum Frères -- Peacock brooch / Georges Fouquet -- La nature / Alphonse Mucha -- Loïe Fuller table lamp / François-Raoul Larche -- Park Güell / Antoni Gaudí -- Judith with the head of Holofernes / Gustav Klimt -- Decanter / Charles Robert Ashbee -- Jugendstil table lamp / Peter Behrens -- Opera of the seas / Margaret MacDonald -- La maison moderne / Emmanuel Orazi -- Wisteria table Lamp / Louis Comfort Tiffany and Clara Driscoll -- Shell table lamp / Gustav Gurschner -- Glasgow School of Art / Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Belt buckle / Archibald Knox -- Blossom coffee and tea service / Georg Jensen -- Casa Battló / Antoni Gaudí -- Fulfilment (The embrace) / Gustav Klimt -- Nénuphar bed / Louis Majorelle -- Delphos gown / Mariano Fortuny -- The kiss / Gustav Klimt -- Neptune's horses / Walter Crane -- The spirit of ecstasy / Charles Robinson Sykes -- These no sooner saw beauty than they began to scream and chatter / Edmund Dulac -- The princess on the way to the dance / Kay Nielsen -- The ominous cough / Sidney Sime.