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The Art Nouveau Style
A revolutionary reaction to traditional nineteenth-century art, the turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau movement drew much of its inspiration from nature. Applying its sinuous, curvilinear motifs to the decorative arts, graphics, architecture, sculpture, and painting, artists and craftspeople attempted to create a style suitable for a "modern" age. In this absorbing, exceptionally detailed, and well-researched book (one of the first scholarly works to revive interest in the style after World War II), a noted Norwegian authority on the subject examines the movement in depth. Stephan Madsen offers a wealth of facts and insights about the origins and development of the style; trends leading up to A...
A Dream of Arcadia
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...
A - Günther
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, ; Walravens, Hartmut; Olejniczak, Ursula; Schmiedecke, Käthe: Internationale Bibliographie der Bibliographien 1959-1988 (IBB). Personennamenregister / A - Günther.
Cartes a J.F. Ràfols, 1917/1958
Interessantíssim epistolari entre el pintor Joan Miró i el seu amic, també pinto r, arquitecte i historiador de l'art Josep Francesc Ràfols entre el 1917 i el 19 58, on es reflecteixen, ultra la seva amistat, les seves opinions respecte l'art en general i l'obra mironiana en concret.
L’Obrera Mataronesa. Un bell i efímer somni (1864-1890). El cooperativisme a Mataró al segle XIX
Història d’aquesta cooperativa fabril obrera, que va adquirir molt de relleu a l’època i de la qual es conserva, principalment, la nau d’arcs catenaris, projectada per Antoni Gaudí, restaurada recentment.
