☰

Arts & Photography

Viennese Secession (Art of Century Collection)

Sold Out / Out of Stock

Viennese Secession (Art of Century Collection)

Â
Symbol of a forecasted revolution, the Viennese Secession possesses within itself the dissidence of about twenty talented artists against the conservative academicism which petrified Vienna and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time.
Influenced by the Art Nouveau, the Secession, created in 1897 by Klimt, Moll and Hoffmann, was not an anonymous artistic revolution among so many others. Dissenting in essence, defining itself as an â€œart totalâ€, without any political or commercial constraint, this movement resembles more the philosophy that the ideological turmoil affected the craftsmen, architects, graphic artists and designers. Turning aside from the established art to dive into the generous and decorative shapes of Flora and the other nymphs, the artists open themselves to an estheticism of which erotic power could only offend the bourgeoisie of the time.
Painting, sculpture, architecture are confronted by the author of this book, to highlight the diversity and the richness of a movement whom univocal motto, â€œFor each time its art, for each art its liberty.â€, illustrate the innovation and originality.
Country USA
Brand Parkstone Press
Manufacturer Parkstone Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781844848454
ReleaseDate 2011-12-31

You might also like...

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Vienna: Art and Architecture

Vienna: Art and Architecture

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floge: Photographs

Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floge: Photographs