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Klimt:
Life and Work
Author: Susanna Partsch
ISBN: 1840133139
Pub. Date: May 2004
Publisher: Grange Books
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Book description:
Gustav Klimt was the great master of the Viennese variant of the Art Nouveau
movement known as "Jugenstil". His beautiful, ornamental, and
often gilded paintings, as well as his remarkable depictions of women, have
made him world famous. A part from his decorative Art Nouveau work, he made
a great many refined drawings, mainly featuring highly sensual female
nudes.
The milieu and achievements of this remarkable artist are
portrayed by highlighting:
-- Vienna as a "total artwork"
-- Jugenstil painting and Symbolism
-- The heroic years of the Vienna Secession
-- The celebrated Beethoven Frieze
-- The Kiss, theme and variations
-- The Femme fatale
Owing to the richness of his palette and the stark drama
of his paintings, Klimt's popularity continues. With handsome color
reproductions and a comprehensive text, this volume is a tribute to an
artist who continues to engage, surprise, and fascinate us.
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Art
Nouveau (DK Collector's Guides)
Author: Judith Miller
ISBN: 1405302518
Pub. Date: May 2004
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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Book description:
Whether a long-lived passion or a new found pleasure, explore the beauty and
originality of Art Nouveau with this sumptuous collector's guide. From
furniture to metalwork, jewellery to sculptures - over 1,100 individually
priced items, with up-to-date valuations and unique historical information,
are presented by subject area. With in-depth coverage of all the major
designers and factories, including Emile Galle and Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, you can't afford to buy or sell without it.
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Lötz,
Bohemian glass
ISBN: 3775713220
Pub. Date: November 2003
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
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Book description:
The Lotz glass manufacturer gained international
importance with its art nouveau style glass which was built into an
independent and diversified product line. Lotz's artistic claims were
reinforced by ibtensive contacts with the art scene in Vienna, expecially
with the circle around Josef Hofmann and Koloman Moser, and the dealer and
applied arts publisher, Whelm Bakalowits. Around the turn of the 20th
century, the manufacturer's speciality was glass in metallic iridescent
colours. In the period before World War I and the focus shifted to
monochrome opal glass in contrasting colours. This exhibition catalogue is
accompanied by a CD-ROM presenting 5000 sectional model views of the
manufacturer's production.
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Viennese
Silver
Modern
design 1780-1918
Author: Markus Brüderlin et al.
ISBN: 3775713174
Pub. Date: September 2003
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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Book description:
The history of modern design is not only older but much
more multifaceted than commonly assumed. This thesis is elegantly borne out
through an exploration of the work and influence of the Vienna avant-garde
of the Biedermeier period, an era that brought forth shapes and forms which
have lost none of their appeal, even today. If the towering objects that
appear together on the cover of this book give the effect of a futuristic
city, they thereby prove that their design stands the test of time,
resoundingly relevant to our current design view thanks to its creative
innovation. In fin-de-siècle Vienna, the designs of Josef Hoffman and
Koloman Moser for the Wiener Werkstätte were informed by the intellectual
content of that time. Since then, many of their ideas and the ideas of the
Vienna avant-garde found their way into mass production; in this way have
they trickled down into today's design vocabulary, primarily via the Bauhaus
and de Stijl movements. Viennese Silver: An Adventure in Time 1800-1900
compares 180 carefully selected Viennese silver objects from the classicist
to the Wiener Werkstätte periods with 20th-century architectural and design
objects, exploring the question of Vienna's contribution to the development
of modern design.
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Hector
Guimard,
Architect
designer (1867-1942)Author: Georges
Vigne
Photography: Felipe Ferré
ISBN: 0-929445-20-1
Pub. Date: August 2003
Publisher: Delano Greenidge Editions
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Book description:
Best known for his Paris subway entrances (floating forms of glass and metal),
Guimard completed several major—but almost unknown—landmarks during his
lifetime. An enigmatic figure, not one personal letter from or to Guimard
survives. He was an architect who worked alone like an artist in his studio.
In lush color, Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942) presents a
comprehensive, chronological inventory of the architect’s work. The book
is the product of a remarkable collaboration between art historian Georges
Vigne and photographer Felipe Ferré. Combining Ferré’s 30-year
photographic project on Guimard with authoritative biographical and
historical texts by Vigne, the book returns this nearly forgotten master in
line with the major architects of the 20th century.
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Design,
Vienna 1890s-1930s Author: Joann
Skrypzak, Barbara Copeland Buenger,
ISBN: 0932900968
Pub. Date: July 2003
Publisher: Elvehjem Art Center
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Book description:
Barbara Buenger traces the development of Viennese modernism
from turn-of-the-century Jugendstil (as Art Nouveau was known in German-speaking
countries) to early twentieth-century Expressionism, and interwar Art Deco. This
exhibition catalogue features 103 fine and decorative art works produced by the
Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte movements between the 1890s and 1930s.
The fully illustrated catalog features textiles, furniture, ceramics, paintings
and prints, books, metalwork, glass, and a variety of other objects from a
private midwestern collection.
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