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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Art Nouveau"”.
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The early works of Victor Horta: The origins of art nouveau architecture. (Volumes I and II)
"In 1893 Victor Horta, a young Belgian architect who had built only a handful of relatively insignificant structures, designed the Tassel House. The popularity of the decorative style which Horta introduced in it and developed in the series of masterpieces which rapidly followed, has resulted in …
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Reconfiguring the Republic Dream: New Equitable Housing Types in Post-Socialist Tbilisi
… between private, public, and semiprivate. The Art Nouveau courtyard house embodies these values as its internal composition reveals that the shift toward Art Nouveau accompanied a broader redesign of domestic space at this moment. Further, these buildings were constructed when Georgia was …
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Proyecto de la exposición "Contexto del origen del ballet nacional de Letonia: imperialismo ruso, vanguardismo europeo e identidad nacional letona (1914-1934)"
… palpable a través de su amplia colección de Art Nouveau. Sus raíces se encuentran en el imperialismo ruso proveniente del Ballet Mariinski de San Petersburgo, en el vanguardismo europeo proveniente de París, impulsado por los Ballets Russes de Diaghilev, y en el auge de la identidad nacional …
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Forma em fluxo: transformações na concepção estética do objeto no século XIX
The heightened concern with the decorative arts at the close of the 19th century is the prodcut of a cross between optical and tactile values which, in turn, derives from a loss of the primary tactile relationship between man and object, brought on by industrialization. This process is most evident …
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Futurity
… the mind which contemplates them” —David Hume My art series, "Futurity" celebrates the richness of color, translucency, reflectivity, curvilinear geometry, and high craftsmanship. Within these low-relief works, dimension, depth, and mirrored luminosity arise from an ongoing dialogue between …
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The Sources, Rhetoric, and Gender of Artistic Dress
This study of clothing designed by artists covers Western Europe between 1890 and 1912. The work argues for the consideration of artists' attempts to create beautiful clothing outside the fashion industry as a pan-European movement rather than an individual or regional interest. An examination of …
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O Parque Güell e a crítica à autonomia da arte: um estudo sobre as relações entre a obra de Gaudí e a crítica Fin-de-Siècle à Autonomia da Arte e os Gêneros Artísticos
A idéia de arquitetura como arte e gênero artístico autônomo é relativamente nova. Na prática construtiva grega, o templo era uma produção totalizante, em que espaço, plástica e cor contribuíam igualmente para a expressividade da obra. No tratado vitruviano, a arquitetura – a construção – é tratada …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… was a time of change in nationalism, culture, art, science and religion. Nations and groups grew into defining themselves through movements such as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Some groups sought to define themselves through reviving aspects of their old cultures as inspiration. For …
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From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West
… to record, to a lesser extent, how Japanese art, particularly the way in which it was displayed, underwent a similar renaissance, and the part played by architect-engineer, Wells Coates, in this reversal of opinion. Japanese 'influence' on British design from the mid-1850s until the …
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Cineplastick: Synthetic Materials in the Films of Mary Ellen Bute, Jim Davis and Jeff Keen
… the one hand, and, on the other, his unlikely participation in Cold War international fairs and exhibitions. Davis’s queer abstractions reflect a mutation in the reputation of plastics in the post-war years; rather than slickly hermetic and privatising, plastic begins to be suggestive of the …
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A Sign in the Pattern: The Creation of Mary Seton Watts’s Ideal Design in the Compton Mortuary Chapel (Surrey, England, 1898)
… categorization and canonization of the arts as influenced by dominant power structures through the work of turn of the century artist Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler Watts and the Compton mortuary chapel, or Watts Chapel, project in the Guildford district of Surrey, UK. The built environment of …
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Technology and form : iron construction and transformation of architectural ideals in nineteenth century France, 1830-1889.
… last decade of the nineteenth century when the Art Nouveau exploitation of iron became a passion for individual fantasies, while engineers declared the triumph of their iron construction. Subsequent rationalists' change of the material signifier of architectural modernity from iron to reinforced …
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1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
… agendas of the sovereign, and allowed leading artists of the day to break with the past to create a new aesthetic mode for display in a highly visible public arena. The 1897 Exposition Coloniale established a national variant of Art Nouveau, known as le Style Congo. It was rooted in raw …
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Impacto y Alteración de la Arquitectura Ecléctica y Modernista en Cartagena (España). Y su comparación con La Habana (Cuba)
… cambios urbanos de la ciudad española de Cartagena en la Edad Contemporánea. Desde un punto de vista económico existió un fuerte desarrollo económico que aburguesó a sus habitantes en su modo de vida dentro de su casco histórico, y desde un punto de vista constructivo se recibieron las …
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