Bibliographies

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) was one of a small number of professional female artists working in the second half of the nineteenth century.She was an important presence in the Victorian art world and closely affiliated with members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, modeling for George Frederic Watts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Edward Burne-Jones, among others. Desiring an artistic career of her own, she trained with Ford Madox Brown. After marrying the American painter and journalist William James Stillman, she lived in Italy, where she was deeply influenced by Renaissance art.This fully-illustrated catalogue provides the opportunity to examine approximately fifty of her works, many of which reside in private collections and have not been shown since Spartali Stillman’s lifetime. Three essays and individual entries for each of the featured works focus on Spartali Stillman’s biography and creative output.

With the opening of the Villa Darvas-La Roche, the first issue of the Secession Magazine was released.

Cet ouvrage offre un panorama inédit de l’affiche dans le monde entier, des années 1880 à la guerre de 1914, à l’heure où la rue devient un musée de peinture.
Une iconographie exceptionnelle de près de 470 affiches. Un texte vivant et accessible. Une réflexion sur la place de l’image dans la société de l’information et de la consommation modernes.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of over one hundred posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. These innovative works of graphic design reveal the progressive Dutch artists’ conscious reaction against the past, their inspiration in natural forms and exotic cultures, and their embrace of the principle that art should transform everyday life. It also shows how the New Art, Nieuwe Kunst in Dutch, coexisted and sometimes intertwined in the Netherlands with other artistic strands, including persistent realist trends, Symbolism, and the emergence of modernism. With text by Clifford S. Ackley, one of the leading specialists on Dutch prints and drawings, Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau provides a fascinating and visually rewarding introduction to a rich and creative artistic era.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is widely regarded as the most talented and innovative printmaker of the late nineteenth century. Trained as a painter, Lautrec adopted color lithography in 1891, and it immediately became an obsession: in the decade before his early death, in 1901, he created more than 350 lithographs, from posters pasted up in the streets of Paris to livres d’artistes, fine art editions, and illustrations for magazines, journals, theater programs, books, and song sheets.Accompanying an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume presents more than one hundred prints and posters by Lautrec from MoMA’s outstanding collection of his work. Spanning the artist’s mature career, they exemplify Lautrec’s extraordinary range and ability as a printmaker and brilliantly evoke his milieu and central preoccupation: fin-de-siècle Paris, particularly the bohemian life he shared with the dancers, artists, prostitutes, and impresarios of the city’s burgeoning demimonde.Includes a color poster of Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithograph La Troupe de Mademoiselle Églantine.

In this volume dedicated to liberty style architecture, in addition to a historical overview, an interesting survey of the examples present in all our regions and a rich alphabetical list of the major and minor Italian exponents of this style in the various fields is presented art. Spacing from buildings to monuments, from frescoes to stained glass windows, from wrought iron to sculptures, from jewelry to ceramics, from furniture to mosaics, this book offers itself to the reader as a fundamental guide to orientate himself in the rich Italian liberty production and allows you to enjoy a fascinating journey into one of the most exciting phases of the architectural and artistic history of our country.

This reasoned guide of the Liberty style in Sicily gives the sense of the scope and variety of an artistic phenomenon that has profoundly characterized the history of art – architectural painting and sculpture – on our island. “Sicilia liberty”, a true classic re-proposed today in a revised edition enriched with images, also underlines the importance of the conservation and restoration of our cultural heritage, a heritage that must be protected and saved in its integrity because it constitutes a precious capital and it is evidence of a phase of flourishing reawakening of Sicilian artistic and craft culture.

Catalog of the great exhibition, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Trieste, curated by Federica Rovello of the University of Trieste with the collaboration of Michela Messina and Lorenza Resciniti (Civic Museums of History and Art of Trieste) and of the Order of architects of the Province of Trieste for the set-up project.

From the beginning of the twentieth century to the twenties is active in Caltagirone architect Xavier Fragapane, a student of Ernesto Basile and leading figure of Art Nouveau and Art Deco in eastern Sicily.
To him we owe the development plans and the most important projects of public utility buildings and various types of urban homes and stately villas and economic promoted during the period when he was mayor of the city pro Don Luigi Sturzo.
The author, on the basis of unpublished material – documents, sketches and drawings, photographs – gives a complete reconstruction of the personality of Fragapane. In the first part of the book into several chapters, it circumscribes the cultural formation and style, from Art Nouveau to Art Deco and epilogue rationalist, with reference to problems and specificities of the territory and the cultural intricacies that determine its own conception of a ‘modern architecture, made ​​for man. The second part examines all projects, the proposed zoning, buildings executed.
The volume is therefore as a monographic study exhaustive, for the novelty of the news and the wealth of illustrations, and is also a useful contribution to broaden and deepen their knowledge of local issues and influences of Art Nouveau and Secession architecture liberty which is developed by the school of Basile.

This volume is aimed at all those who wish to know and understand the Italian Liberty, which was not only an artistic style, but a multi-faceted cultural climate, addressed here for the first time in a unified manner.
Through the works submitted and accepted papers, the book tells what Liberty has meaning in painting, sculpture and decorative arts – from the windows to wrought iron, from furniture to decorative objects, from textiles to jewelry – emphasizing relationships with literature, D’Annunzio, Pascoli and Gozzano, and with the music of Puccini, Mascagni and Ponchielli.
Of that “magnificent floral revolution” that accompanied the entry of Italy into the modern age, are far retraced models – the Renaissance and Botticelli in the first place – the themes and formal solutions, showing in many cases the proximity Symbolism .
But above all the Italian Liberty is inserted between the major European movements of the time, especially the Viennese Secession, through the comparison unavoidable with authors such as Klimt, Moser, Klinger, Bocklin, Morris, just to name a few.