Gabriel P. Weisberg

Laurinda S. Dixon

Visions in Art History

The Documented Image

Antje Bultmann Lemke

Laurinda A. Dixon

"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." -- Metropolitan Museum Library staff.

Paris Style 1900 ; Publ. on the Occasion of an Exhibition Organized by ... Shown from Sept. 1986 - Sept. 1987 at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithonian Institutions̕ National Museum of Design, New York

Art Nouveau Bing

Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple aspiration of western art since the Renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, animated by the invention of photography and cinema, artists began attempting not only to paint realistically but also to create images that projected the ethical content of the world around them. "Illusions of Reality: Naturalist Painting, Photography and Cinema, 1875-1918" traces the development of Naturalism within painting, literature, theater, photography and film, and the relationship among these art forms, paying attention to the way painters such as Jules Adler, Thomas Anshutz, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Emile Claus, Thomas Eakins, Christian Krohg, Gari Melchers, Jules-Alexis Muenier, Fernand Pelez, Jean-Andr xE9; Rixens and Anders Zorn, filmmakers such as Andr xE9; Antoine, Albert Capellani and L xE9;on Lhermitte and photographers such as Peter Henry Emerson, used Naturalism as a vehicle for understanding the lives of ordinary people at a time of great social transformation. Practitioners of Naturalism frequently concerned themselves with the social ills created by industrialization, as well as the social responses to these problems in both public education and religion. Likewise, the transformation brought about by industrialization led many artists to focus on the loss of traditional agrarian culture as well as the political upheaval caused by working conditions in the factories. Technological advances in art, from the development of photography in the first half of the nineteenth century to the emergence of film toward the end of the century, contributed to the interaction among art forms and the attention toward social conditions. Edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota, with essays by Weisberg, David Jackson, Willa Silverman and Maartje de Haan, "Illusions of Reality" offers a fresh interpretation of how Naturalist artists, and the aesthetic they espoused, attempted to understand and explain the rapid and profound changes of their time.

Naturalist Painting, Photography, Theatre, and Cinema, 1875-1918

Illusions of Reality

Edwin Becker

Evelyne Posseme

Evelyne Possémé

"It was on 26 December 1895 that art dealer Siegfried Bing (1838-1905) opened the doors of his Paris shop L'Art Nouveau. This long-awaited event represented the birth of a new movement in art." "The Origins of L'Art Nouveau is more than a monograph on Siegfried Bing, his shop and his national and international influence. It also analyses the development of Art Nouveau, and explores the fusion of applied and fine art into an all-embracing new stylistic form. Numerous previously unpublished photographs and works of art further elucidate the narrative."--BOOK JACKET.

The Bing Empire

The Origins of L'art Nouveau

This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Christopher Dresser, Pietro Krohn, Alf Wallander, and Frida Hansen, among others, offers an unprecedented study of Japanese influence on the visual arts in the Nordic countries. This unlikely diffusion of Japanese culture, known collectively as Japonisme, became increasingly apparent in England, France, and elsewhere in Europe during the 19th century, although nowhere was the influence seemingly as pervasive as it was throughout the Nordic countries. The book reveals how the widespread interest in Japanese aesthetics helped to establish notions of a fundamental unity between the arts and transformed the region's visual vocabulary. The adoption of Japanese motifs and styles in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark provided a necessary cohesion to their existing artistic language, forming a vital balance within and among all of the applied arts.

Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918

Elizabeth K. Menon

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England, and the United States

Art Nouveau

"The nine essays and more than ninety illustrations that comprise this volume reveal how visual imagery has played a significant role throughout history in reinforcing and establishing definitions of sickness and standards for physical well-being. Each author demonstrates how works of art and the imagery of popular culture both reflect and reinforce the power of medical beliefs to define and to limit human behavior, and how art and medicine work together to communicate social directives in support of a perceived common good. The essays range in topic from the seventeenth century to the present day, utilizing an interdisciplinary, contextual methodology that reconstructs the issues of an era and examines works of art against historical events and ideas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Disease as Metaphor in Art and Popular Wisdom

In Sickness and in Health

Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret

Dahesh Museum

"The exhibition at the Dahesh Museum that the publication of this book celebrates is the first in a century to feature Dagnan Bouveret's work. Against the Modern pays special attention to the evolution of this artist's style and subject matter and brings to the public gaze the real diversity, accessibility - and surprising modernity - that has made Dagnan-Bouveret worthy of our attention today."--BOOK JACKET.

Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition

Against the Modern

Located on the fringes of Paris, Montmartre attracted artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Steinlen, and Jules Chéret. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the artists in the quarter began to create works blurring the boundaries between fine art and popular illustration, the artist and the audience, as well as class and gender distinctions. The creative expression that ensued was an exuberant mix of high and low-a breeding ground for what is today termed popular culture. The carefully interlocked essays in Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture demonstrate how and why this quarter was at the forefront of such innovation. The contributors bring an unprecedented range of approaches to the topic, from political and religious history to art historical investigations and literary analysis of texts. This project is the first of its kind to examine fully Montmartre's many contributions to the creation of a mass culture that reigned supreme in the twentieth century.

Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture

Leon A Weisberg, M.D.

Yvonne M. L. Weisberg

The subject is the Japanese influence on all areas of western art and culture from 1854 through 1910. Some 700 books, articles, exhibition catalogues and unpublished dissertations are cited along with foreign- language articles (many in Japanese) which have been abstracted. Annotations are detailed. The introductory essay raises fundamental issues. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An Annotated Bibliography

Japonisme

Julia Meech

A book which explores the influence of Japanese art - Japonisme - on the graphic arts of turn-of-the-century America. It focuses on the ukiyo-e (woodcut) print and what it meant to American works on paper - watercolours, etchings, sketches and woodcuts.

The Japanese Impact on the Graphic Arts, 1876-1925

Japonisme Comes to America

Cleveland Museum of Art

Helen Osterman Borowitz

Japanese Influence on French Art 1854-1910

Rosa Bonheur

Accompanies an exhibition of the artist's work at New York's Dahesh Museum. The five contributions look at Bonheur's reception in England and America, the dissemination of her work by the House of Goupil, Bonheur and her female life-companion Anna Klumpke, and the Bonheur family. Includes 26 color

Gabriel P. Weisberg

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