9783836539210-3836539217-Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (Multilingual Edition)

Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (Multilingual Edition)

ISBN-13: 9783836539210
ISBN-10: 3836539217
Edition: Multilingual
Author: Tobias G. Natter, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Max Hollein
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9783836539210
ISBN-10: 3836539217
Edition: Multilingual
Author: Tobias G. Natter, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Max Hollein
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: TASCHEN
Format: Hardcover 416 pages

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Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (Multilingual Edition) (ISBN-13: 9783836539210 and ISBN-10: 3836539217), written by authors Tobias G. Natter, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Max Hollein, was published by TASCHEN in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Decorative Arts & Design (Criticism, Arts History & Criticism, History, Prints, Arts Other) books. You can easily purchase or rent Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (Multilingual Edition) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Decorative Arts & Design books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.03.

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At the turn of the 20th century, amid the domed grandeur of Vienna, a group of Secession artists reclaimed the humble woodblock. The gesture, though short-lived, and long overlooked by established art histories, may be seen as a decisive social, as well as aesthetic, moment. Elevating a primarily illustrative, mass-production medium to the status of fine art, the woodblock revival set a formal precedent for Expressionism while democratizing an art for all.

Coinciding with the traveling exhibition through the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Albertina, Vienna, this TASCHEN edition brings together leading examples of the Viennese woodblock renaissance to give a long overdue exploration of its achievements and influence. Through prints, publications, calendars and pages from Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, it gathers works remarkable for their graphic and chromatic intensity, and vital with the traces of japonisme as much as the stylistic seeds of Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter and later Expressionist movements.

Through figure studies, landscapes, patterns, and typographical treasures, the featured works are accompanied by detailed captions, as well as essays exploring their aesthetic and ideological implications, and biographies for the more than 40 artists. Examining their stark contours, stylization of the surface per se, and tendency towards contained colour areas we evaluate the Viennese woodblocks as essential harbingers, and benchmarks, of the 20th century modernism to come. At the same time, we assess how the dissemination of the woodblocksubstantiated the Seccessionist claim for a democratized, all-encompassing art, while adding to their reappraisal of originality, and authenticity, and convention.

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