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Tiles & Styles, Jugendstil & Secession: Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts Design in German and Central European Decorative Tiles, 1895-1935
Ken Forster
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Description for Tiles & Styles, Jugendstil & Secession: Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts Design in German and Central European Decorative Tiles, 1895-1935
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, 608 colour photos. BIC Classification: WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 228. .
This book looks at decorative tiles manufactured in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bohemia/Moravia/Czechoslovakia in the years between 1895 and 1935. These ceramic tiles, used primarily on walls, floors, and stoves, but also furniture, trays and more, were an affordable decor element that made art accessible to many. They would also turn out to be some of the best examples of the Jugendstil and Secession movements in design: Both were variations of international art nouveau and rejected the conservative aesthetics of mainstream art. In Part I of the book, the author places these movements within the context of art history, then ... Read more
This book looks at decorative tiles manufactured in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bohemia/Moravia/Czechoslovakia in the years between 1895 and 1935. These ceramic tiles, used primarily on walls, floors, and stoves, but also furniture, trays and more, were an affordable decor element that made art accessible to many. They would also turn out to be some of the best examples of the Jugendstil and Secession movements in design: Both were variations of international art nouveau and rejected the conservative aesthetics of mainstream art. In Part I of the book, the author places these movements within the context of art history, then ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1744g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764349157
SKU
V9780764349157
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About Ken Forster
Ken Forster is a professional antiquarian, design historian, collector, and lecturer, specializingfor over forty yearsin the applied arts and styles of decoration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and the United States.
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