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portada French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary
Type
Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
31.2 x 23.9 x 3.6 cm
Weight
2.65 kg.
ISBN13
9782915542653
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French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary

Paul Arthur (Author) · Norma Editions · Hardcover

French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary - Paul Arthur

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Synopsis "French Art Nouveau Ceramics: An Illustrated Dictionary"

This book is a unique and comprehensive illustrated dictionary of French Art Nouveau Ceramics. A census conducted in 1901 indicated the existence of some 209 producers of pottery in France, employing a total of around 5,800 full-time labourers. This great activity stimulated a parallel development in the arts, including the search for new expressions in art pottery, giving birth to l'art nouveau, a great and eclectic synthesis of a number of other art styles. Largely through British arts and crafts, and the work of artists like the Manxman Archibald Knox, it reached far back into the prehistory of Celtic art. To this were added later medieval elements, through the gothic revival championed by William Morris. The need for renewal, breaking away from the neo-Classical and academia, which was realm of the upper-class culture, was largely theorised by John Ruskin, who searched elsewhere for inspiration. Thus did British art nouveau also partake of Chinese and Japanese styles, though never in so forceful a manner as did the French aesthetic. France, on the one side, looked back to the swirling and frivolous eighteenth century Rococo, primarily through the influence of the Goncourt brothers, Edmond and Jules, influential aesthetes of the mid nineteenth century. The book focuses especially on artists working stoneware or gre's, faience, and terracotta. It aims to provide a general survey of the many artists working in these areas, and includes brief accounts of the ceramics work of sculptors and painters whose wider output is already well known.

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