Art Nouveau, whose emergence at the same time as cinema was no mere coincidence, represents the most remarkable attempt to reconcile the demands of the technical age with the undying wish for beauty and glorification—or to pit them against the other.

Here the reform movement of the turn of the century is not only dealt with as an artistic event, but those economic and political interests which inspired, supported, and handicapped it are also taken into account. In the chapters "Movement," "Unrest", and "Equilibrium," the historical phenomenon as a whole is characterised and is also presented with its own distinct local features. The centres of Brussels, Nancy, Barcelona, Glasgow, Helsinki and Chicago are dealt with in subchapters as are Munich, Darmstadt and Weimar. Finally, Vienna, that city in which the synthesis achieved its culmination, is described separately. The outstanding artists are examined in detail in connection with the respective cities of their greatest activity. The result is a complex picture of the symbiosis of architecture, furniture design, and craftsmanship with their corresponding approaches to artistic revitalization.

About the author:
Klaus-Jürgen Sembach organised the exhibitions "Die Nützlichen Künste" (Useful Arts), 1981 in Berlin, "Zug der Zeit – Zeit der Züge" (The Railway Era), 1985 in Nuremberg, "So viel Anfang war nie – Deutsche Städte 1945–1949" (Never have there been so many beginnings – German cities 1945–1949), in Nuremberg and Berlin 1989, and has numerous publications on architecture, design, photography and film to his name.

В основу предлагаемого читателю издания положены материалы, подготовленные к Международной научной конференции "Федор Шехтель и эпоха модерна", организованной 20-23 октября в Москве в связи со 150-летием со дня рождения архитектора Федора Осиповича Шехтеля (1859-1926).

Интерес к его творчеству сегодня чрезвычайно велик и постоянно растет. Внимание к личности этого выдающегося мастера сегодня вышло далеко за пределы профессиональной архитектурно-художественной среды. О Шехтеле - причем не только как об архитекторе, постройки которого широко известны, но и как о замечательном декораторе и театральном художнике - написано немало, этому посвящена не одна монография и множество статей.

Данная книга - особая по своему жанру, поскольку в ней удивительным образом соединились совершенно разные взгляды на эпоху модерна, художественную и архитектурную деятельность Федора Шехтеля. Они представлены работами разных специалистов - искусствоведов, историков, архитекторов, изучающих архитектуру и искусство модерна, исследователей литературы и театра Серебряного века. В совокупности все составляющие содержание книги материалы: творческая биография Шехтеля и каталог его произведений, аннотации научных докладов, студенческие работы, позволяют передать существующее сегодня восприятие творчества этого мастера, его места в архитектуре и искусстве эпохи модерна, в культуре в целом.

Almost twenty years after the creation of the Musee d’Orsay, the 19th century seems more than ever to be the “Golden Age” of French art. It boasts names such as Ingres and Delacroix, Manet and Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Eiffel and Charles Garnier. French art became a universally accepted benchmark, spreading the discoveries of Impressionism, the Haussmann models, and the daring of art nouveau far beyond its borders, and receiving in return, in the form of the countless artists who flocked to its hub, numerous influences from abroad. Other key movements associated with the19th century include Romanticism; Neo-Classicism, “orientalism,” and japonisme; Realism; the Barbizon School and plein-air painting; Neo-Impression, Cloissonism, and the Nabis; and Symbolism.This complete, chronological history is illustrated by more than 400 illustrations and covers painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the advent of photography, its impact on painting, and its emergence as an art form of its own.

Henri Loyrette, president director of the Louvre Museum, was previously director of the Musee d’Orsay (1994). Loyrette has published articles and books on 19-century art and has presided over many exhibitions focusing on the Impressionistst. Sebastien Allard is Heritage Curator in the Painting Department at the Louvre. Allard has also published a book on Paris in 1820. Laurence des Cars is curator at the Musee d’Orsay. A specialist in late 19-century painting, des Cars has published Discoveries: Preraphaelites: Romance and Realism.

These small books are quite something! They are packed with information; the most important facts and background stories, all at a glance. In-depth texts on the most exciting themes in the History of Art by experts and specialists provide the necessary overview for both the expert and the layman. The most important stages in the lives of famous personalities such as Giotto, Monet or Klimt, as well as the important currents in art, are summarized in colorful text boxes to enable every reader to find the required information easily and effectively. The most important works of architecture, sculpture, and painting are brought to life through high-quality photographs and top-quality color reproducA--tions. Explanatory picture captions offer additional information and invite the reader to browse at leisure.

Around 1900 the Pforzheim jewellery-making industry, which had been established since 1767, underwent an upturn to flourish as never before. The participation of Pforzheim businesses in the 1900 Paris World Exhibition and the thorough assimilation of a variety of influences from abroad – including the figurative French Art Nouveau style – ensured that Pforzheim Art Nouveau jewellery developed confidently towards aesthetic autonomy.

Collaboration between the jewellery industry and professors at the Pforzheim School for the Applied Arts as well as sharp eyes for new developments outside the jewellery capital shaped Pforzheim jewellery creations around 1900. Other fecund sources of colla-boration were the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe artists and Wiener Werkstätte. The author has discovered hitherto unpublished contemporary source material and has been able to draw on hundreds of extant original pieces of jewellery – brooches, pendants, collars, hatpins and hair combs that are now in museums, private collections and on the art market – to make a choice selection for this book. Thus a living picture emerges of the diverse formal and technical -possibilities that gave rise to the design, craftsmanship and industrial manufacture characteristic of Pforzheim Art Nouveau jewellery.

Many important designers worked for the Pforzheim jewellery industry around 1900. This is the first wide-ranging survey – informative on both artists and firms and lavishly illustrated.
Artists (a selection): Franz Böres | Max Gradl | Patriz Huber | Georg Kleemann | Ferdinand Morawe | Otto Prutscher | Emil Riester | Fritz Wolber
Firms (a selection): Theodor Fahrner | Gebr. Falk | Hermann & Speck | Kollmar & Jourdan | Lauer & Wiedmann | Levinger & Bissinger | Victor -Mayer | Meyle & Mayer | A. Odenwald | Rodi & Wienenberger | F. Zerrenner

This series aims to combine a compact, commercial approach with the breadth and clarity of larger format books. Covering art which both creates the foundation of modern culture and modern art itself, the books include International Arts and Crafts, Turner, Whistler, Monet, and the Art Deco movement.

A Guide to Art Nouveau Style

Стиль ар нуво - разновидность модерна - получил широкое распространение в изобразительном искусстве и архитектуре последних десятилетий прошлого века и в начале нынешнего. Данный "Путеводитель", принадлежащий перу английского искусствоведа Уильяма Харди, призван помочь читателю проследить периоды становления, расцвета, а затем и упадка ар нуво, разобраться в художественных особенностях стиля, а также лучше узнать творчество его ведущих мастеров. Книга богато иллюстрирована и снабжена алфавитным указателем.

This book has over 300 stunning photographs covering the late 1880's to the early 1900's. It features buildings, furniture, metalwork, jewellery, glass etc

Illustrations:  500 color and 275 b/w graphics

This book has chapters on the Origins of Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris, Major Artists and a Bibliography

Jewelry was one of the purest, and most successful, expressions of Art Nouveau style, using sensuous organic forms to create a vast range of objects of exceptional beauty and inventiveness. Leading expert Vivienne Becker provides an account of the movement that spread through Europe and the United States, acquiring different decorative characteristics in England, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Russia and Spain.

For the collector, comprehensive biographies on more than 300 designers are included, followed by a guide to identification, with over 200 makers’ marks and signatures. Each part of the book is richly illustrated with plate sections of dramatic illustrations, from the sinuous elegance of the French masters - Vever, Lalique and Fouquet - to the linear, geometric designs of the Viennese - Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.

456 illustrations, 156 in colour, 214 makers' marks