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Horta : art nouveau to modernism

Title
Horta : art nouveau to modernism / edited by Françoise Aubry and Jos Vandenbreeden ; photography Reiner Lautwein.
Author
Horta, Victor, baron, 1861-1947.
Publication
Ghent [Belgium] : Ludion Press ; New York : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Aubry, Françoise.
  • Vandenbreeden, Jos.
  • Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Description
231 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Alternative Title
Art nouveau to modernism
Subject
  • Horta, Victor, baron, 1861-1947 > Exhibitions
  • Art nouveau (Architecture) > Belgium
Note
  • "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Horta', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 4 October 1996-5 January 1997"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-229) and index.
Contents
"The birth of Pleinairism from the spirit of the interior" : Walter Benjamin on art nouveau / Lieven de Cauter -- Mannerism, nature and abstraction : the early architectural designs of Victor Horta / Alfred Willis -- Floor plans and spatial structure : toward a virtual transparency of space / Jos Vandenbreesen -- "Reason, feeling, and logic" / Françoise Aubry -- Houses tassel, Van Eetvelde and Horta / Reiner Lautwein -- Painting and sculpture in Horta's architecture / Bruno Fornari -- Victor Horta's clients / Valérie Montens -- The construction of the Palais des Beaux-Arts / Françoise Aubry --The Brugmann University Hospital / Annie Meiresonne -- The Palais des Beaux-Arts : toward an urban architecture / Jos Vandenbreeden -- "An invisible palace?" : the building history of the Palais des Beaux-Arts / Françoise Aubry, Jos Vandenbreeden and Daniel Commins -- Kindergarten, Brussels-Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai-Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels / Reiner Lautwein -- Art nouveau to art deco : Horta's later development from an historical perspective / Francis Strauven.
ISBN
0810963337
LCCN
97150453
OCLC
ocm36473802
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries