Art Nouveau Designers at the Paris Salons 1895-1914 - Vol. II. Jewellery of Art Nouveau - Part 2
Autor:
Alaistar Duncan
Editura:
Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN:
1851491686
Preţ magazin :
318,82 RON
Carte în limba:
engleză
Descriere:
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This volume, together with Jewellery: I. The Designers, A-K, completes a two-volume set forming a unique visual record of the jewellery shown at the Paris Salons from 1895 to 1914.
Some 2,500 pieces are shown, the work of great designers like Mucha, Sandoz, Thesmar and Vever, not to mention the giant Lalique, as well as that of over 160 lesser known but still outstanding designers.
During the years 1895-1914 jewellery design underwent a fundamental change, one which Alastair Duncan admirably describes in his scholarly introduction to Jewellery: I. The Designers, A-K. He describes the functions of the four annual Salons at which jewellery was featured – those of the Société des Artistes Français, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Société des Artistes Decorateurs, and the Salon d’Automne, as well as two important exhibitions – the Exposition Universelle of 1900 and the Exposition de la Parure Précieuse de la Femme of 1908, both of which confirmed the pre-eminence of the French jewellery industry.
Many of the items illustrated in this volume seen here will be familiar, but through years of meticulous research, the author has been able in a number of cases to give designers’ names to pieces – a quality of research that will make these two volumes an unequalled reference for many years to come for a wide variety of specialists and students in the field of art history, jewellery and design.
This second volume ends with an appendix which includes the names of over 550 individual artists and jewellery houses who showed at the Salons, together with biographical and exhibition details where the author has been able to ascertain them. Jewellery historians will be much aided by the author’s initiative in undertaking this pioneering listing, which will without doubt form the groundwork upon which future research into the subject will be based.
These two volumes are the first in a multi-volume series illustrating all the decorative arts of the Paris Salons, gathered together from all the known and available Salons’ catalogues as well as contemporary reviews and articles. The series will form an unparalleled research tool illustrating the vast output of the designers and craftsmen working during the brief twenty-year period which saw the rise, development and demise of the style known as Art Nouveau.
Format:
279 x 216 mm, 306 pp., 8 c., 2,500 b&w, hardback
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