VIENNA 1900 COMPLETE

A truly magnificent tome published by Thames & Hudson with over 1,250 illustrations covering painting and drawing, decorative arts and crafts, graphic arts, fashion, photography and architecture, Vienna 1900 Complete has an exquisitely designed cover in keeping with the subject, a tipped-in illustration on the back in Art Deco decoration, and bronze tooling on the purple board covers. Covering the Vienna Secession, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Max Oppenheimer, Richard Gerstl, Arnold Schoenberg in just part one on Painting and Drawing, other chapters cover Wiener Werkstätte Interiors, Book Design, Glass, Ceramics, Metalwork, Textiles Jewellery and Accessories, Graphic Design and the Art of the Book and Furniture. The final part looks at the Architecture of the Otto Wagner School, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos. The epilogue looks at the influence of Vienna to the rest of the world and there is an excellent A-Z of artists, companies and institutions. With exquisite layout and design, packed with colour examples, the book is a total work of art on Jugendstil, Vienna's Art Nouveau, and on the workshop founded in 1903 by Moser and Hoffmann that revolutionised the decorative and graphic arts. 24.5 x 31cm x 4.75, 544pp, packed with colour.
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