Title & Author:

Art Nouveau architecture / edited by Frank Russell.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1979.

Description:

332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-321) and index.
Introduction / Roger-Henri Guerrand -- Great Britain: arts and craft and Art Nouveau / Tim Benton -- Spain: modernismo in Catalonia / Tim Benton -- Belgium: red steel and blue aesthetic / Maurice Culot -- France: Viollet-le-Duc to Tony Garnier : the passion for rationalism / François Loyer -- Holland: building towards an ideal : progressive architecture in Holland / Richard Padovan -- Switzerland: the temperate presence of Art Nouveau / Jacques Gubler -- Germany: Jugendstil : the early morning of the modern movement / Ian Latham -- Italy: liberty architecture in Italy / Ezio Godoli -- Czechoslovakia: the secession in Eastern Europe / Anna Masaryková -- Austria: to the limits of a language : Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann / Ezio Godoli -- USA: Louis Sullivan, Greene and Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright / William Chaitkin, Randell L. Makinson & Thomas A. Heinz -- Biographies -- Map of Europe.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Liberty, Jugendstil, Modernismo, Secessionstil--Art Nouveau architecture embraced many apparently contradictory idioms. Whether the curvilinear style of Horta and Guimard, employing, a vocabulary of ornament based on natural forms or the restrained rectilinear abstraction of Mackintosh or Hoffmann, whose rational response to design problems anticipated the Modern Movement, Art Nouveau architecture was characterised above all by its enthusiastic adoption of ornament. At its most successful, Art Nouveau attained a perfect organic fusion of structure and decoration, and gave rise to some of the most eccentric and imaginative architecture of the last one hundred years. This important book documents for the first time the extraordinary achievements of the architects of the fin de siècle. Organised by country, each chapter is written by a well-known authority, and provides a visual survey of all the regional variations, of the style set against a discussion of the current ideological background. Over 400 photographs, both contemporary and specially commissioned, together with redrawn plans and elevations illustrate the work of Art Nouveau architects in Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland, USA, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Austria. The reference section contains over 150 illustrated biographies of the architects and extensive bibliography."--book jacket

ISBN:

0847801861
9780847801862
085670136X
9780856701368

Subject:

Art nouveau (Architecture)
Architecture, Modern 19th century.
Art nouveau.
Architecture moderne 19e siècle.
Architecture 19e siècle.
Art Nouveau.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Jugendstil

Added entries:

Russell, Frank, 1949- editor.
Guerrand, Roger-Henri, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26698
Call No.: W7318
Status: Available