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Art nouveau
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Art Nouveau was a world-wide artistic fashion that deeply affected the whole spectrum of the arts in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the early years of this century. It sought to finalise the break with the academicism of traditional art, to raise the status of design and to place art within the realm of daily life. In doing so it provided many of the prototypes for the art of an industrial society, and it was the springboard for some of the most important artistic movements in the twentieth century, such as Expressionism, Futurism and the International Style in architecture.--From dust jacket.
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"Art Nouveau is a term which has become widely used in the last few years but, as the author shows, it should strictly be applied only to the decorative style which was fashionable in France at the end of the nineteenth century."--Excerpt from book jacket.
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Art deco 1910-1939
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The Victoria and Albert Museum's highly successful art nouveau exhibition is replaced in 2003 by an art deco exhibition. This volume focuses on one of the twentieth-century's most popular and distinctive styles.
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Aesthetic and social interpretation of the history, development and meaning of the art movement which flourished at the turn of the century.
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Bodhisattva : a Gandharan face
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"Gandhara was an historical region situated in what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan, It was located on the route by which Buddhism was transmitted out of India to China, and was also, in 327 B.C., the eastern-most area to which Alexander the Great brought Hellenistic culture. Gandharan art depicts mostly Buddhist subjects but does so in a style that reflects both western and eastern iconographic traditions"--From leaf [4].
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The Renaissance : studies in art and poetry
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"This English classic contains studies of those 'supreme artists,' Michelangelo and Da Vinci, and of Botticelli, Della Robia, Mirandola, and others, who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere. There is no romance or subtlety in the work of these masters too fine for Pater to distinguish in superb English"--from dust jacket.
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