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Art Nouveau by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach (Hardcover, 2014)

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This hardcover book titled "Art Nouveau" by Klaus-Jurgen Sembach is a non-fiction piece published by Taschen GmbH in 2014. The book is illustrated and comes with a dust jacket, featuring 240 pages of art and culture topics. The item measures 300mm in height and 240mm in width, with a weight of 1432g. The book is written in English and belongs to the genre of art and culture. New & Sealed This title is out of print.

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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.