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Czech secession : art and architecture 1890-1914
- Title
- Czech secession : art and architecture 1890-1914 / Petr Wittlich ; [translated by Adrian Dean].
- Author
- Wittlich, Petr
- Publication
- Prague, Czech Republic : Charles University, Karolinum Press, [2022]
- [Příbram?] : Printed by Pbtisk a.s.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 501 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm
- Summary
- "Though it's less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna, 1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siècle cultural center as its Mittel European peers. At the end of the nineteenth century, the city found itself home to a fervent coterie of young visual artists all deliberately pushing against--indeed, seeking to secede from--the traditional artistic structures of the day. This book traces Czech Secessionist art from the turn of the twentieth century by following its three main stylistic schools: naturalistic-impressionistic, symbolist, and ornamental-decorative. Though these styles developed separately, their symbiotic relationship gives the art a deeper significance and disrupts the traditional understanding of Art Nouveau and Secessionist art as an eclectic decorative style that faded away at the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than three hundred color plates, Czech Secession is a fittingly lush tribute to one city's underappreciated and forward-looking artistic blossoming."--Publisher's description.
- Uniform Title
- Česká secese. English
- Alternative Title
- Česká secese.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published in Czech as Česká secese, Prague: Odeon 1982. The first English translation follows the third, updated Czech edition, Prague: Karolinum Press, 2020.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (476-487) and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Czech.
- Contents
- Secession -- Signals -- The end of the century -- Go to the world -- Into the wider world -- Defiance -- Painters of the soul -- Spring -- Fairy tales -- Senses -- Epoch -- Synthesis -- Expression -- Geometrisation -- The second secession -- Legacy.
- Call Number
- JQF 24-88
- ISBN
- 9788024651330
- 8024651335
- OCLC
- 1346940313
- Author
- Wittlich, Petr, author.
- Title
- Czech secession : art and architecture 1890-1914 / Petr Wittlich ; [translated by Adrian Dean].
- Publisher
- Prague, Czech Republic : Charles University, Karolinum Press, [2022]
- Manufacturer
- [Příbram?] : Printed by Pbtisk a.s.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First English edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (476-487) and index.
- Language
- Translated from the Czech.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Added Author
- Dean, Adrian (Translator), translator.Univerzita Karlova, issuing body.Nakladatelství Karolinum, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 24-88