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Sto caricando le informazioni... Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveaudi Victor Arwas
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Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists working in Paris at the turn of the century. His distinctive and original posters and his decorative panels in le style Mucha became almost synonymous with French Art Nouveau. The admirer and iconographer of Sarah Bernhardt, he was also well known as the creator of familiar advertisements and as a book illustrator. Yet there was much more to Mucha's achievement than this. At the height of his career as a decorative artist, he became convinced that art should serve ideas, he became chief artistic and cultural adviser to the interwar Czech government, and he completed a major and controversial fresco cycle, the Slav Epic, as well as portraits and large symbolic paintings. This book--the first full-scale treatment of Mucha's entire oeuvre--includes discussions and reproductions of paintings, posters, panneaux decoratifs, pastels, drawings, and illustrations from throughout his career. In addition, the authors provide essays on Mucha's Paris years; his association with Sarah Bernhardt; the importance of American patronage on his later work; his graphic and painterly techniques; and the problems connected with the conservation of the large canvases. This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Mucha's work that will tour the United States, beginning in San Diego in 1998. Published in association with Art Services International, Washington, D.C. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)760.092The arts Printmaking and prints Printmaking and prints - modified standard subdivisions Biography; History By Place BiographyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.17)
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The first is how the layout is done. Text only appears in large blocks, which limits the arrangement (and therefore the size in many cases) of the illustrations. This is most likely a cause of printer limits in regards to layout, but it is unfortunate how small some pictures are as a result. The "Slav Epic," especially requires a large reproduction for readers to appreciate the amount of detail in each picture (the actual canvases are HUGE), but the reproductions here are so small that the images are largely lost.
Secondly, the pieces are not presented chronologically, so any researcher wanting to study the evolution of Mucha's style is hindered by having to flip pages constantly. Studying Mucha's "phases" is virutally impossible this way as well, since photographs appear in random places throughout the book, even though he did not start using them until much later in his career, so the reader is presented with a falsified timeline.
The last (and most important) problem is the colour. Many times only black ink is used, and I found many of the pictures in colour to have erronious tone! Mucha's art may be distinct because of it's line style, but art is effected greatly by colour, so the reader will be extremely underwhelmed by Mucha's creations in this form. (