Silverman, Debora
Art Nouveau in Fin-De-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style
Art Nouveau in Fin-De-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. First ed., first printing (full number line). Small quarto with light brown boards and cream endpapers in blue and beige pictorial jacket; xv, 415 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); index;27 cm Near fine copy with slightest shelfwear in very good (+) to near fine (-) jacket with slightest edgewear, now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780520063228, 9780520080881
Examines the political, social, economic, intellectual, and artistic factors that influenced the development of art nouveau. "Debora Silverman explores the shift in the locus os modernity in fin-de-siecle France from technological monument to private interior. What assumptions about modern life were expressed in an art of organic, irrepressibly curving forms? And why were these assumptions so compelling at the century's end?"--Jacket copy.
Contents: Introduction: The transformation of Art Nouveau, 1889-1900. Part I. The Goncourt's legacy: The Brothers de Goncourt between history and the psyche. Part II. Fluctual nec Mergitur: Belle Epoque and fin-de-siècle: Aristocratic ralliement and social solidarité. The abdication of technology and the elevation of the crafts. Amazone, femme nouvelle, and the threat to the bourgeois family. Psychologie nouvelle. Part III. Rococo revival and craft modernism: Third Republic Art Nouveau: The Central Union of the Decorative Arts. Esprit nouveau: politicians, amateurs, and artisans. The Third Republic and the Rococo as national patrimony. Rococo revival and the Franco-Russian alliance. Art Nouveau: craft modernism in the state. Art Nouveau: organicizing and feminizing the crafts in the Central Union of the Decorative Arts. Art Nouveau in the salon, I.: international reform and craft champions. Art Nouveau in the salon, II.: Psychologie nouvelle in the works of Emile Gallé and Auguste Rodin. National initiative to international awakening: the Maison de l'Art Nouveau Bing. Conclusion: The 1900 Paris Exhibition.
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