Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau
Boston: MFA Publications / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Illus. boards with silky gray cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, 256 pp., 155 color illus. VG. Item #147347
ISBN: 9780878467990
Issued in conjunction with a 2013-2014 exhibition celebrating "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 reation aganist the past, their inspiration in natural forms and exotic cultures, and their embrace of the principle that art should transform everyday life. They also shoiw 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." (publisher).
Price: $43.00