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Art nouveau : art and design at the turn of the century Edited by Peter Selz and Mildred Constantine, with articles by Greta Daniel ... [et al.]
Date
1960 Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by Doubleday Exhibition URL
www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2752 The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in 1929 to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists.
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ART NOUVEAU
192 pages, 193 illustrations (color frontispiece)
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ART NOUVEAU edited by Peter Selz and Mildred Constantine with articles by Greta Daniel, Alan M. Fern, Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Peter Selz What is Art Nouveau? A passing phase or a significant move ment? This book tries to give the answer, based on a careful and detailed examination of the underlying sources and the works of art which, spread all over the world, carry this stylis tic denomination. It deals with the period at the turn of the century which gave rise to one of the most controversial movements in art, enthusiastically acclaimed at the moment of its inception and then, soon after, emphatically denied any value. But as often happens in the succession of art cycles, the period cherished by the fathers is derisively scorned by the sons and re-evaluated by later generations. Art Nouveau, the dominant style of 1895-1905, which not only encompassed all branches of artistic endeavor but also left its imprint on minute details of daily life, is undergoing this very process today. The curi osity concerning Art Nouveau is widespread and the revival of interest in this period can be measured by the increasing number of exhibitions and publications. The authors follow the germination, growth and flowering of a style heralded all over Europe and America in its own time as a new art form, free of the traditional imitation of the his torical past, new and revolutionary in its emphasis on the use of decorative form, line and color, and rich in its symbolic meaning. In search of the antecedents for the great variety of art forms in our own time, they point out the importance of basic ele ments inherent in Art Nouveau as foreshadowing art and de sign of the twentieth century. They also deal with the extension into all realms of artistic activity which Art Nouveau made it its gospel to unite: from painting murals to embroidering pillows, from carving chairs to fusing glass, from building castles to designing exquisite jewelry and to printing beautiful books. To do justice to the richness of the material, several experts continued on back flap THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 11 West 53 Street, New York 19, N.Y. Distributed by Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, N.Y.
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All art is at oncesurfaceand symbol Oscar Wilde:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
TRUSTEES
OF THE MUSEUM
OF MODERN
ART
Henry Allen Moe, Chairman of the Board; William S. Paley, ViceChairman; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, President; Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, William A. M. Burden, ^Stephen C. Clark, Ralph F. Colin, *Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Mrs. C. Douglas Dillon, Mrs. Edsel B. Ford, A. Conger Goodyear, *Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, Wallace K. Harri son, Mrs. Walter Hochschild, *James W. Husted, Philip C. Johnson, Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, Mrs. Henry R. Luce, Ranald H. Macdonald, Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, Porter A. McCray, Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller, Mrs. Bliss Parkinson, Mrs. Charles S. Payson, *Duncan Phillips, David Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rockefeller, *Paul J. Sachs, James Hopkins Smith, Jr., James Thrall Soby, Mrs. Donald B. Straus, *Edward M. M. Warburg, Monroe Wheeler, John Hay Whitney *Honorary
TRUSTEES
OF TRUSTEES
Roy A. Hunt, Chairman; James H. Beal, James M. Bovard, Samuel B. Casey, Henry J. Heinz II, James F. Hillman, William R. Oliver, Charles J. Rosenbloom, John C. Warner Honorary
Members
David L. Lawrence, Thomas L. Orr, A. L. Wolk Term Members Frederick J. Close, Mrs. James H. Heroy, Jr., C. McKenzie Lewis, Jr., Henry Oliver, Jr., Mrs. William C. Robinson, Jr., Mrs. George Magee Wyckoff
Staff Gordon Bailey Washburn, Director; Leon Anthony Arkus, As sistant Director; Herbert P. Weissberger, Curator of Decorative Arts; Emily J. Roberts, Executive Secretary; Anne K. Stolzenbach, Registrar
Trustee for Life
OF THE BALTIMORE
FINE ARTS COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
MUSEUM
OF ART
Frederick J. Singley, Jr., President; Robert G. Merrick, Vice-Presi dent; Fred I. Archibald, Edward M. Benesch, George Boas, J. R. Herbert Boone, Alexander S. Cochran, George W. Constable, William A. Dickey, Jr., Laurence Hall Fowler, Alexander B. Griswold, George B. Hess, Mrs. Arthur U. Hooper, Richard H. Howland, Mrs. Harold Duane Jacobs, Francis H. Jencks, Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Trafford P. Klots, Mason F. Lord, Herman Maril, Mrs. William McMillan, Francis D. J. Murnaghan, Jr., Mrs. Reuben Oppenheimer, J. G. D. Paul, Philip B. Perlman, John H. Scarff, Mrs. Harry R. Slack, Jr., W. Cameron Slack, Eleanor P. Spencer, Mrs. John C. Taliaferro, Jr., Alvin Thalheimer, Henry E. Treide, S. Bonsai White, Eloise H. Wilson, Mrs. Harold H. Wrenn, Alan Wurtzburger
Frontispiece: Behrens: The Kiss. 1896-97. Color woodcut. 10% x 8V2". Private collection, New York
LOS ANGELES
COUNTY
MUSEUM
Board of Governors William
T. Sesnon, Jr., President
Board of Directors
of Museum Associates
Howard F. Ahmanson, Sidney F. Brody, Richard F. Brown, Ed ward W. Carter, C. V. Duff, John Jewett Garland, Mrs. Freeman Gates, Ed N. Harrison, David W. Hearst, Roger W. Jessup, Joseph B. Koepfli, Mrs. Rudolph S. Liebig, Charles O. Matcham, J. R. Pemberton, Vincent Price, William T. Sesnon, Jr., William J. Sheffler, Norton Simon, Maynard J. Toll, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Mrs. Stuart E. Weaver, Jr.
ERRATA
page 6
Column 2: for James N. Wells read James M. Wells
page 13
Book of Kells is in the collection of Trinity College Library, Dublin.
page 20
Moser and von Larisch illustrations are handlettering from Beispiele Kiinstlerischer Schrift by Rudolf von Larisch.
page 30
The illustration for Sagesse should be that referred to in note 20 on page 149. The text on page 30 refers to that illustration.
page 32
Line 1: for 1899 read 1889
page 42
Last paragraph, line 2 should read: executed in sheet metal or stone
page 163 Add 19a: Commemorative plaque of Justus Brinkmann. c. 1902. Glazed ceramic. Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg page 169 Gaillard, Lucien: born 1861 page 169 Cat. no. 95: date is 1898 page 175 Cat. no. 176: Both Frances Macdonald and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh worked on The Iliad. page 175 Add 180a: Handlettering from Beispiele Kiinstlerischer Schrift by Rudolf von Larisch. 1902. The Museum of Modern Art, New York page 176 For cat. no. 200 read: Handlettering from the Beispiele Kiin stlerischer Schrift by Rudolf von Larisch. 1900. The Museum of Modern Art, New York page 179 For cat. no. 236 read: Handlettering from Beispiele Kiinstler ischer Schrift by Rudolf von Larisch. 1902. The Museum of Modern Art, New York page 182 Cat. no. 265: date is (1892-93) page 185 Cat. no. 299: size is 19 x 21%"
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Art and Design at the Turn of the Century
Edited by Peter Selz and Mildred Constantine with articles by Greta Daniel, Alan M. Fern, HenryRussell Hitchcock and Peter Selz.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Distributed by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
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