TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fahr-Becker, Gabriele,
TI  - Art nouveau
SN  - 3895084441
AV  - NK1380 .F3413 1997
U1  - 709.0349 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Köln
PB  - Könemann
KW  - Art nouveau
KW  - Decoration and ornament
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) and index
N2  - The unity of art and life was the goal of the Art Nouveau movement, the prelude to modernity. On the basis of shared ideas, its adherents strove for a homogenous style, which nonetheless took on manifold variations in its expression. Dr. Gabriele Fahr-Becker explores this artistic movement in architecture, interior decor, furniture design, silver and gold smithery, ceramics and glasswork, graphic arts and painting. The author leads her readers through the diverse national variations of Art Nouveau in Europe and the United States. The significance of the literary and philosophical as well as cultural and political background is explained by means of many theories and writings by artists and their contemporaries. The countless permutations of Art Nouveau are woven into a complex and yet distinctive picture of this artistic movement at the turn of the twentieth century
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