Art Nouveau

. Klaus-Jürgen Sembach is a writer, curator and former director of the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg. He has produced numerous publications on architecture, design, photography, and film

The result is a vivid portrait of the age and a movement that is as much entrenched in our imagination of the fin de siècle as it is in the trajectory of modernism.. With a symphony of flowing lines and organic shapes, Art Nouveau (“New Art”) inflected architecture, design, painting, graphic work, applied arts, and illustration.Art Nouveau was deliberately nouveau. Turning to vine tendrils, flowering buds, and bird feathers as ornamental reference, they pursued not only a linear freedom but also liberation from the weight of artistic tradition and expectation.At the same time, Art Nouveau followed the example of the earlier English Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to reject established hierarchies of artistic practice, to emphasize a return to handcraftsmanship, and to synthesize artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art.
Excellent volume, with amazing material from Darmstadt but poor treatment of Helsinki roberto Excellent volume, with amazing (unfamiliar to me at least) material from Darmstadt. I find it to be well thought out and presented, often providing unfamiliar but better than the standard selection examples of well known architects and designers work.Despite a general abundance of riches there are two negative observations, both about Helsinki. Customer Review4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent volume, with amazing material from Darmstadt but poor treatment of Helsinki. "Great photos and decent editorial to underscore it." according to Dirk Winston. I mostly bought this book for the pictures I must confess but the editorial was interesting as well and the collection of photos did not disappoint.. Five Stars A. Tom Rehn Bring this style back please.!

He has produced numerous publications on architecture, design, photography, and film. About the Author Klaus-Jürgen Sembach is a writer, curator and former director of the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg.