Victor Arwas

Art Deco (Revised Edition)

"Art Nouveau was born in Britain as a by-product of the Art and Crafts Movement and the developing Glasgow Style. The Glasgow Four, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Herbert MacNair, evolved from a ghostly, abstract skeletal Symbolism dubbed 'The Spook School' by their critics to a gloriously decorative, richly coloured imagination whose images derived as much from analytical botany as from the influence of Klimt, Toorop and Beardsley. The Macdonald sisters, working together and separately, created strangely inspired metalwork and pictures which perfectly complemented the interior designs of the architects they were to marry. Around them sprang a group of talented artists and designers, such as Jessie M. King, E. A. Taylor, Margaret Gilmour, George Walton, who designed and executed innovative metalwork, book bindings and illustrations, stained-glass panels, embroidery, and jewellery. Admired abroad, their designs disseminated by The Studio magazine and others, the Glasgow line entered and influenced Continental sensibility." "In London the Arts and Crafts movement permeated much of the creativity in the crafts, and affected both teaching and practice in the provinces, leading to a major renaissance in Birmingham. A London department store, Liberty Et Co, in the forefront of the Aesthetic Movement and the dissemination of Japanese and other Oriental artifacts, launched itself into the avant garde with the production of silver, pewter and jewellery whose style was inspired by a Manxman steeped in Celtic lore and design, Archibald Knox. The combination of commercial astuteness and creative originality was the source of the development of Art Nouveau in Britain, to which many of the Glasgow artists contributed." "This book traces the development of style in the crafts, the emergence of idealism in sculpture and painting and its dissemination through book and magazine illustration and graphics, and the creative heights achieved in jewellery, silver, enamelling and other crafts which led French writers to call Art Nouveau 'The English Style.'"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

From Mackintosh to Liberty : the Birth of a Style

Art Nouveau

Hans Henning Von Voigt

Alastair, Illustrator of Decadence

Anna Dvorak

Jana Brabcova-Orlikova

The Spirit of Art Nouveau

Alphonse Mucha

Graham Ovenden

Paintings and photographs of nymphets, including one called Lolita.

A homage to Parisian frivolity, wit and satire from the early twentieth century as revealed in the pages of one of the most successful magazines of the period. A saucy, light-hearted look at life in Paris before the Great War when life was enjoyed to the full and the pursuit of the grisette, actress and artists' model was high on the list of male preoccupations. La Vie Parisienne was a magical name which proclaimed itself proudly as the masthead of a way of life in which frivolity, wit and satire were as important and as relevant as literary and political intellectualism. This very popular journal attempted a fresh mix of humorous cartoons, short stories, sharp little tales of fashion-folk, columns of aphorisms on such subjects as marriage or love and acid comments about all and sundry, music, art, theatre, the races, sports and the stock exchange. Somewhat surprisingly, the mixture took. Founded in 1863, Parisians bought it in sufficient numbers week after week to ensure its survival for over a century.

La Vie Parisienne

Rarely has a subject been served by a book of this stature. Five years in the making, it covers all aspects of Art Nouveau in France in 624 authoritative pages and 740 illustrations. Arwas traces the evolution of the movement as it developed, primarily in Nancy and Paris, with the help of carefully chosen illustrations, many never published before. Ranging from the 1900 Paris exhibition to paintings, graphics and posters and such collecting fields as furniture, jewellery, ceramics, book bindings and sculpture, the informative, witty text ranges over architecture, haute couture, and the role of women in Art Nouveau with a particular look at such theatrical icons as Sarah Bernhardt, Loïe Fuller and the Grandes Horizontales. Destined to become the standard book on the subject, both content and design will appeal widely to the connoisseur, the specialist and the collector, as well as to the novice who will be introduced to the magical wonders of the style.

Victor Arwas

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