art nouveau

Contains illustrations of over 230 women's fashion postcards created by twenty European artists in the art nouveau and art deco periods, and includes information about each featured artist.

"A collection of...examples of Art Nouveau...[that]...chronologically traces the development of the movement and shows how it impacted every artistic discipline, from painting and graphic arts to fashion, architecture, glasswork, metalwork and furnishings"--Back cover.

Provides a pictorial survey of the decorative style of the late 19th century.

Traces the rise and fall of Art Nouveau, recounting the movement's history and profile its most notable artists and works.

The literature on Art Nouveau is extensive but little mention has been made of the man who created the name, Siegfried Bing, a leading figure in fin de siecle decorative arts and a moving force in the style that swept through Western Europe and the United States. Weisberg, along with SITES, has produced a visually delightful, detailed tribute to this elusive but effective artist-entrepreneur. The catalog traces Bing's life, involvement in Japanese arts, the creation of the gallery ``L'Art Nouveau'' and the atelier that flourished under his supervision. It was a union of art and industry aimed at design reform with an international style and no distinction between major or minor, fine or applied arts. Useful for art libraries. Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum Lib., New York.

A great Austrian symbolist, Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century--a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.

Alphonse Mucha is most closely identified with the art nouveau period around the turn of the 20th century but his career as an artist encompassed more than that.