Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism (Hanks David A.)(Pevná vazba)

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism (Hanks David A.)(Pevná vazba)

Positioning Art Nouveau architect and designer Guimard at the forefront of the modernist movement, this book explores the full range of his

Art Nouveau Architecture (Anderson Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Distinguished by their lavish sculpture, metalwork or tile facades, Art Nouveau buildings certainly stand out. Art Nouveau buildings are unique, audacious and inspirational. Rejecting historic styles, considered inappropriate for an era driven by progress, architects and designers sought a new

Art Nouveau: Paris, Bruxelles, Barcelona (Hauffe Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sought to replace the forms of historicism with plant ornamentation and functional construction. A comprehensive reform of the arts that produced rich

Henry van de Velde: The Artist as Designer - From Art Nouveau to Modernism (Hollis Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau & the Vienna Secessionists (Kerrigan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Gustav Klimt is renowned as a quintessential artist of the art nouveau movement, but he was one of a number of Viennese artists who strove to break free of the constraints of the late 19th Century academic art establishment. The Secessionists were united, not in the style of their work, but their

The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents (Cohen Joshua I.)(Pevná vazba)

Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The 'Black Art' Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during

Victor Horta: The Architect of Art Nouveau (Dernie David)(Pevná vazba)

In the decade following the success of his design for the Hotel Tassel in Brussels in 1893, Victor Horta, the creator of Art Nouveau architecture, produced more than forty buildings--and a movement. Prepared in close collaboration with the Horta Museum, Brussels, Victor Horta: The Architect of Art

Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan (Wu Chinghsin)(Pevná vazba)

Mod Art (Anderson Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Examining and illustrating the art scene surrounding the birth of modernism and its simultaneous rise among the burgeoning working class Mod scene of the Sixties, Paul Anderson's Mod Art is the definitive work on the visual culture of Mod. With interviews from key artists, scene members and a rich

ART OF DEATH (FENNELL DAVID)(Pevná vazba)

The Art of Jose Gonzalez (Roach David)(Pevná vazba)

Art Since 1900 - Modernism * Antimodernism * Postmodernism(Pevná vazba)

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the

LOGO Modernism (Mller Jens)(Pevná vazba)

Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the

Tadema Gallery London: Jewellery from the 1860s to 1960s (Chadour-Sampson Beatriz)(Pevná vazba)

Tadema Gallery showed jewels from significant designers of the Revivalist, Art Nouveau, Arts & Crafts, Jugendstil, Art Deco, and Modernist

Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green (Brockington Grace)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating cross-section of current research in modernist art history, at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, with essays by pupils of the renowned scholar Professor Christopher Green. Of Modernism brings together twelve original essays by leading scholars in modernist art history,

Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India (Terracciano Emilia)(Pevná vazba)

During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emerge. This book asks: what happens to art during a state of emergency? Investigating

Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance (Wade David)(Pevná vazba)

A definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. Influencing the work of artists such as Paulo Uccello, Piero della Francesco, and Leonardo Da

History of Pictures for Children (Hockney David)(Pevná vazba)

A History of Pictures for Children takes readers on a journey through art history, from early art drawn on cave walls to the images we make today on our computers and phone cameras. Based on the bestselling book for adults, this children's edition of A History of Pictures is told through

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts (Amiran Eyal)(Pevná vazba)

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction

After Art (Joselit David)(Pevná vazba)

Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism, Second Edition (Fisher James)(Pevná vazba)

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors,

John Clemmer: A Legacy in Art (Clemmer David)(Pevná vazba)

Over his eight-decade career, John Clemmer (1921-2014) captivated curators, collectors, and casual art lovers alike with his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures. Clemmer was active in a community of artists--centered on the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans--whose work came to define

The Forces of Form in German Modernism (Maskarinec Malika)(Pevná vazba)

The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and

Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject (Meehan Adam)(Pevná vazba)

In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late--twentieth--century intellectual traditions had already been articulated in modernist fiction