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From Louis Comfort Tiffany to Kurt Schwitters: an immersive appreciation of the home as art As locuses of creativity, the homes of artists reflect the intellectual worlds of their creators. Starting with the Villa Stuck in Munich--the aesthetic, conceptual cosmos and life's work of the aristocratic artist Franz von Stuck--this unique volume integrates the artist's house as a category into the international discourse and is the first to assign these buildings the status of major works. About 20 examples bring to life the fascination that these artistic fantasies hold for art lovers, including both existing projects and some which, although they have been lost, were of unique importance in the...
Künstlerhäuser spiegeln als Schatzhäuser der Kreativität die geistigen Welten ihrer Schöpfer wider. Ausgehend von der Villa Stuck in München, ästhetisch-gedanklicher Kosmos und Lebensgesamtkunstwerk des Künstlerfürsten Franz von Stuck, ordnet der einmalige Band den Typus des Künstlerhauses in einen internationalen Kontext ein und verleiht diesen Bauten erstmals den Rang bedeutender Werke. Rund 20 Beispiele lassen die Faszination, die derart gebaute Künstlerfantasien auf den Kunstliebhaber ausüben, lebendig werden, darunter sowohl existierende als auch verloren gegangene Projekte, die in ihrer Zeit von einzigartiger Bedeutung waren und bis heute Strahlkraft besitzen. Gemälde, Sku...
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Step into the classical world of the most prominent artist of the Victorian era through this sumptuous volume featuring a selection of his work.
This collection is my attempt to honour the one person I have loved beyond all others for the past sixteen years. Margot has influenced and encouraged so many during that time as well as producing many gems of her own. I include those of her works I have been able to salvage as well as snippets of correspondence between the two of us.
"An innovative application of economic methods to the study of art history, demonstrating that new insights can be uncovered by using quantitative and qualitative methods together, which sheds light on longstanding disciplinary inequities"--
This volume addresses and analyses the important contribution of émigrés to Britain during the 1930s and postwar, across the applied arts, embracing mainstream practices such as photography, advertising architecture, graphics, printing, textiles and illustration, alongside less well known fields of animation, typography and puppetry.
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Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.
Franz von Stuck's erotic paintings, especially Die Sunde, were controversial not only because of the choice of subject; his image concept and the way he presented the Munich Secession set the standard, particularly for Vienna. This catalogue offers an opportunity to examine Von Stuck's works as a whole and in relation to each other.