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This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
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Online ed. provides access to the entire 45,000-plus articles of Grove's Dictionary of art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
The dream of “progress” that animated many nineteenth-century artistic and political movements gave way at the turn of the century to a dissatisfaction with the Industrial Civilization and a recurrent pessimism about a future dominated by mechanization. Art Nouveau, which was both a style and a movement, embodied this dissatisfaction, marking the turn-of-the-century period with an aesthetic that consciously set out to revolutionize literature, the arts, and society within the framework of a brutalizing, wildly burgeoning Industrial Civilization. Generally associated with northern European culture, Art Nouveau also had a great impact in the south, particularly in Spain. A Dream of Arcadia...
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El objeto de este libro es dar a conocer la tesis de licenciatura realizada en 1986 sobre la conocida como «Casa Solans» de Zaragoza. El interés que suscitó en su momento y el tiempo transcurrido hasta su total restauración y posterior uso como sede de la ONU para la Década del Agua, ha hecho que finalmente se incluya un apartado dedicado a comentar el proyecto de rehabilitación municipal en la que participó el autor, así como cuanto se ha podido recopilar sobre la utilización posterior del edificio.