Alfons Mucha: Pioneer of Art Nouveau

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angličtina

Original language name

Alfons Mucha: Pioneer of Art Nouveau

Original language description

A catalogue accompanying exhibition of the same name organised in China by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague in cooperation with Prague City Gallery and the West Bohemian Gallery in Pilsen. The book presents works by Alfons Mucha that came into being in the atmosphere of the emancipation of art and the onset of modernism underway in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The wide range of artistic positions at that time, manifested in the pursuit of an artistic synthesis, in the more subjective forms of Symbolism, and in the merging of different kinds of art, are all interconnected in terms of style by the characteristic decorativism of Art Nouveau, which was co-created by Mucha in particular through his designs for posters and advertisements. The presented set of pieces is largely related to Mucha’s life and work in Paris, where he belonged among the most prominent creators of the visual style in question which, through all manner of printed materials and posters, permeated the public space of the Parisian streets. The objects from the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague show the importance of this institution’s collections. Its permanent exhibitions were opened to the public in 1900 and included not only historical artifacts, but also the most recent works such as Mucha’s posters. The Museum of Decorative Arts was probably the first collecting institution in the world that included posters in its permanent exhibition, giving rise through its systematic collecting efforts to a unique collection of 40,000 pieces, which now represents one of the most valuable and oldest European poster funds. Over the years, the Museum of Decorative Arts acquired other Art Nouveau artifacts, especially glass, book design and illustration, furniture, fashion, photographs and items from other areas of artistic endeavor. Some were presented at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris, which codified Art Nouveau as a unifying, pan-European decorative style (its name came from a pavilion presenting the interior decoration of the Maison de l’Art Nouveau [“House of New Art"] of the Paris art dealer S. Bing).

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-7-5010-6111-2

Number of pages

285

Publisher name

Cultural Relics Press

Place of publication

Peking

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