Jugendstil, Art Nouveau alemán - Revista Jugend / Jugendstil, German Art Nouveau - Jugend Magazine

 

 

 

La traducción literal de Jugendstil sería “estilo joven o de la juventud” y designa la variante del Art Nouveau que surgió en Alemania durante la última década del siglo XIX. El término provenía del título de la revista Jugend (ver al final), la cual, fundada por Georg Hirth en Munich en 1896, desempeñó un papel importante en la popularización del nuevo estilo. 

Influidos por las ideas reformistas de John Ruskin (1819-1900) y William Morris, los diseñadores del Jugendstil, como Hermann Obrist, Richard Riemerschmid y August Endell, tenían unos objetivos más idealistas que sus contemporáneos europeos ligados al estilo Art Nouveau. No sólo pretendían reformar el arte sino también recuperar un estilo de vida más sencillo y menos condicionado por los imperativos comerciales. Compartían el optimismo de la juventud y un gran respeto por la naturaleza que trasladaron a toda su obra.  

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Jugendstil's literal translation would be "young or youthful style" and designates the variant of Art Nouveau that emerged in Germany during the last decade of the 19th century. The term came from the title of the magazine Jugend (see below), which, founded by Georg Hirth in Munich in 1896, played an important role in popularizing the new style.  

 Influenced by the reformist ideas of John Ruskin (1819-1900) and William Morris, Jugendstil designers such as Hermann Obrist, Richard Riemerschmid and August Endell had more idealistic goals than their European contemporaries linked to the Art Nouveau style. They not only sought to reform art but also to recover a simpler lifestyle that was less conditioned by commercial imperatives. They shared the optimism of youth and a great respect for nature that they transferred to all their work.  

Frida Kahlo • Taschen [español]

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Las cautivadoras imágenes creadas por Frida Kahlo (la mayoría de ellas autorretratos de pequeño formato) son, en muchos sentidos, la manifestación de un trauma. Hija de un fotógrafo alemán emigrado a México y una madre mexicana de ascendencia indígena, Kahlo (1907–1954) resultó gravemente herida en un accidente de tráfico a los 18 años de edad. Sus considerables lesiones vertebrales, pélvicas y abdominales la condenaron a una vida de continuos problemas de salud y le impidieron tener hijos. Entre otras penurias, sufrió hasta 35 intervenciones quirúrgicas, largos periodos de dolor extremo, embarazos fallidos y, hacia el final de su vida, la amputación de parte de una pierna. El sufrimiento físico de Kahlo se vio a un tiempo aminorado y exacerbado por sus tumultuosas vivencias emocionales. Con 21 años contrajo matrimonio con el famoso pintor muralista Diego Rivera. La suya fue una relación tormentosa, marcada por el fuerte carácter de ambos, así como por numerosas infidelidades, un divorcio y un nuevo matrimonio. Pese a lo volátil de sus disputas, Rivera describió el día que murió Kahlo (posiblemente por suicidio) como el más trágico de su vida. Aún adolescente, Kahlo empezó a pintar en su lecho de convalecencia. En poderosos y simbólicos retratos de su padecer físico y psicológico, Kahlo supo combinar sobre el lienzo la tradición religiosa mexicana con elementos surrealistas para plasmar el dolor y la soledad, pero también el amor, el deseo, el lujo y los ideales comunistas que profesaban tanto ella como su marido. La obra de Kahlo se revalorizó póstumamente, a partir de la década de 1970, y en 1983 fue declarada propiedad del Estado mexicano. Hoy está considerada una de las más importantes pintoras del siglo xx, así como un icono feminista y una pionera del arte latinoamericano.

 

 

  Andrea Kettenmann (Autor)

An American Sampler • Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum

 

121 textiles and sculptures from the collection of the Shelburne Museum included quilts, coverlets, and hooked rugs, weathervanes and whirligigs, decoys, carousel animals, trade signs, scrimshaw, and carved figures.

Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Medieval World (4 Volume set)

 

Grade 9 Up—This well-organized resource covers a wide range of topics relating to medieval society and meshes nicely with standard report needs. Though 71 entries may seem skimpy compared to some encyclopedias, the articles are so in-depth (the shortest is 10 pages long, and most are much longer) that these hefty volumes are almost guaranteed to contain the answer to reference requests about medieval society. Topics include agriculture, calendars and clocks, children, clothing and footwear, death and burial practices, manuscript illumination, inventions, and even scandals and corruption. Each entry begins with an overview, followed by five detailed essays addressing the topic from the viewpoints of the main cultural centers of the era: Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and the Islamic world. Most entries also contain primary-source excerpts, sidebars, maps, and illustrations. A glossary and comprehensive index add to the ease of use. The writing is clear and straightforward, if a bit dry. A useful and important set.

 

Art Deco 1910–1939

 

 

This lavishly illustrated book brings together nearly 40 essays from leading experts in the field to discuss the phenomenon that was Art Deco.

 

Charlotte Benton (Author),  

Tim Benton (Author),  

Ghislaine Wood (Author),  

Oriana Baddeley (Collaborator)  

 

Circa 1492 • Art In The Age Of Exploration

Marking the 500th anniversary of the meeting of worlds that took place at the end of the 15th century, Circa 1492 reflects on this watershed moment, one that has been called “the most significant secular event in human history.” Informed by the lasting perspective of art and cultural achievement, this exhibition catalog assesses what we have loosely termed the “Age of Exploration.” Including more than 600 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, maps, scientific instruments, and works of decorative art from four continents—most of them created during the late 15th or early 16th century—the exhibition provides a broad, thematic survey through space rather than chronologically through time. The juxtapositions presented generate a new, keener understanding, both intellectually and affectively, of this historic era that resulted in links among continents that forever changed the character of the relationships between the world’s cultures.

 

 

Editor Jay A. Levenson (Autor)  

Contemporary American Cinema

 

 

Indispensable to film students and general readers interested in this art form, Contemporary American Cinema culls together the writings of the world's leading film scholars to provide the first comprehensive introduction to postclassical American film. Heavily illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white stills, it takes a close look at all aspects of the genre, including influential movies, directors, producers, and actors.

This unique and accessible resource includes two Tables of Contents, allowing readers to research chronologically or thematically. In addition, it includes a glossary of important terms, suggestions for further reading, sample essay questions, and a filmography. Subjects include:

• Decline of the early studio system
• Rise of American new-wave cinema
• Parallel histories of independent and underground cinema
• Black cinema--from the "blaxploitation" era of the 1970s to the 1990s
• Full history of the American blockbuster
• Uses and effects of new film making technologies
• America's ever-changing audiences
• Key genres and industry statistics 

  

Linda Ruth Williams (Autor)

Michael Hammond (Autor)  

  

Walker Evans • Catalogue of the Collection - Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum holds nearly 1,200 prints by master photographer Walker Evans, spanning four decades of his professional life. Many of them have never before been published. This catalogue brings together all of the museum's material on Evans. Included are images both familiar, such as his photographs of tenant farmers in the 1930s, and unfamiliar, such as those he made in Florida in the 1940s and his late Polaroid studies from the 1970s. Keller's lively text provides essential background on the major phases of Evans's artistic development, and a wealth of biographical and bibliographical information. Altogether, this book immediately becomes one of the essential studies of this American master's long and influential career.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Even readers who know photographer Walker Evans's work will find much new in this catalogue of the Getty Museum's complete Evans collection in Malibu, Calif. Containing 1054 duotone and 31 color illustrations, the book includes familiar pictures such as those of Alabama tenant farmers made in the 1920s, as well as much that is unfamiliar; e.g., his images of trailers, wildlife, road scenes, tourists and the circus from Florida's west coast in the early 1940s, or the carefully composed Polaroid studies made shortly before his death at age 71 in 1975. Also included are teeming pictures of Cuba taken in 1933, his documentary studies of African tribal art and the Deep South in the 1940s. In her thoughtful accompanying essay, Getty associate curator Keller follows the continuity of Evans's major motifs-signs, "found" objects, anonymous portraits, local architecture-from his earliest New York City street scenes of the late 1920s throughout his career, making this an invaluable resource for devotees of Evans.

Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Walker Evans (1903-75), whose career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the early 1970s, was arguably the most influential 20th-century American photographer. He was accomplished technically as well-he used 21 different cameras and continued printing his own work until late in his career. This catalog of the Getty's collection of Evans's work is the most complete, most scholarly, and most useful to date, reproducing nearly 1200 images (though most are shown here in small formats, making it difficult to enjoy the high-quality reproductions). Keller, the associate curator of photographs at the Getty, spent years compiling information about Evans's life and oeuvre, working from dozens of previously published studies. She has documented, in the most exacting way, provenance, alternate croppings, signature stamps, previous publication of the images, and other identifying details about every Evans photograph in the Getty's collection, which is made up of images acquired from several major collectors, including George Rinhart, who acquired the contents of Evans's studio at the time of his death. Prints are arranged chronologically in ten chapters, each beginning with an insightful essay that examines the context and influences of the period. Photographs are reproduced from dozens of projects: from his most famous portraits of Depression-era farm families published in his collaboration with James Agee for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men to photo essays for Fortune magazine. Every library with collections on the history of photography or contemporary photography should acquire this book; it cannot be recommended too highly.

Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn

Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Judith Keller (Autor)

Delphi Complete Works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the master Impressionist, produced a stunning oeuvre of oil paintings, celebrated for their inimitable beauty and expression of feminine sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This stunning volume presents Renoir’s complete paintings, with concise introductions, over 1500 high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material.

 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Autor) 

 

Paul Klee maestroː de la Bauhaus • Fundación Juan March

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

 

In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore. From the sci-fi literature of Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and N. K. Jemisin to the musical cosmos of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, to the visual and multimedia artists inspired by African Dogon myths and Egyptian deities, the book’s topics range from the “alien” experience of blacks in America to the “wake up” cry that peppers sci-fi literature, sermons, and activism. With a twofold aim to entertain and enlighten, Afrofuturists strive to break down racial, ethnic, and social limitations to empower and free individuals to be themselves.

 

Greek Art of the Aegean Islands • MET

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents us with a rich sampling of the splendid cultural heritage of Greece. Not only does it emphasize the diverse geographic centers of artistic production but it also covers a broad chronological span, extending from the Early Bronze Age to the Classic Period of the fifth century B.C. Many of the objects are of particular interest in that they are recent finds, which, outside of archaeological circles, are known only to those who have actually visited the National Museum in Athens, and the many different local museums throughout the Greek islands. The loan demonstrates the significant cultural interconnections among the islands as well as the wealth and variety of materials used and the lively forms that characterize so much of Greek art.

American Naive Painting • National Gallery Of Art

Deborah Chotner with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn

Published 1992

688 pages

The American naive paintings at the National Gallery of Art have long been appreciated as wonderfully appealing, and in some cases visually stunning, works of art. Yet with the exception of those paintings by important, known artists such as Erastus Field or Edward Hicks, few had been studied thoroughly. Whereas other volumes of the systematic catalogue build upon decades, sometimes centuries, of scholarship, many of the more than 300 pictures included here are now published for the first time. The research presented here reveals much about the growth of the United States, its centers of commerce a century and a half ago, the pathways for the spread of visual ideas in the 19th century, and the aspirations and sentiments of the middle class. The majority of the works included originated in the northeastern United States during the 19th century.

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The Andy Warhol Diaries

 

The late artist's intimate journals offer revealing insights into Warhol's world and the New York art scene, as well as the many rich and famous people that were a part of it, covering the years from 1976 until his death in 1987

 

  Andy Warhol (Author),

  Pat Hackett (Editor)

 

Hollywood Cartoons American Animation in Its Golden Age

 

 

In Hollywood Cartoons, Michael Barrier takes us on a glorious guided tour of American animation in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, to meet the legendary artists and entrepreneurs who created Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Wile E. Coyote, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry, and many other cartoon
favorites.
Beginning with black-and-white silent cartoons, Barrier offers an insightful account, taking us inside early New York studios and such Hollywood giants as Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM. Barrier excels at illuminating the creative side of animation--revealing how stories are put together, how
animators develop a character, how technical innovations enhance the "realism" of cartoons. Here too are colorful portraits of the giants of the field, from Walt and Roy Disney and their animators, to Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
Based on hundreds of interviews with veteran animators, Hollywood Cartoons gives us the definitive inside look at this colorful era and at the creative process behind these marvelous cartoons.

 

Michael Barrier (Author)  

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture 5 Vols.

 

The St. James Encyclopedia Of Popular Culture, 2nd ed., updates and augments the over ten-year-old first edition. It includes 3, 036 signed essays, alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. The entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance). The entries analyze each topic or persons significance in and relevance to American popular culture; in addition to basic factual information, readers will gain perspective on the cultural context in which the topic or person has importance.

 

Sara Pendergast (Author, Editor),  

Tom Pendergast (Editor)  

 

American Impressionism and Realism The Painting of Modern Life 1885 1915 • MET

"A true historical painter ... is one who paints the life he sees about him, and so makes a record of his own epoch." This principle, voiced by the Impressionist Childe Hassam, was heeded by the artists whose contributions are the focus of this volume: the American Impressionists and the Realists of the generation that succeeded them. The authors of the book, which accompanies a major exhibition, illuminate the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism, two movements that are traditionally viewed as merely opposed.

They explore the roots of American Impressionism in European art, especially in the French Impressionists' engagement with the contemporary scene. Also elucidated are the evolving responses of both the American Impressionists and Realists to the changing realities of life in the United States at the turn of the century, as the nation shifted rapidly from an agrarian to an increasingly industrialized urban society. In an examination of paintings that represent the country, the city, and the home - the triad of subjects that engaged the artists - these responses are shown to reflect a tension between enthusiasm for the new and a sense of loss of the rural past. Studying a wide range of painters, including John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John Sloan, William Glackens, and George Bellows, the authors offer new insights into the threads of nationalism, optimism, euphemism, and nostalgia that link the two movements. They demonstrate that these painters of modern life endowed their European-rooted art with a distinctly American inflection and produced a selective register of an energetic nation, revealing a complex commitment to Robert Henri's assertion that "painting is the giving of evidence."

The volume brings a new approach to this area of American art history, which has tended to be more descriptive than interpretive: it offers detailed historical and social contexts for the works and movements under consideration as well as penetrating stylistic analyses. Lavish illustrations of the paintings in the exhibition, comparative works and period photographs, a biography of each of the twenty-six artists in the exhibition, a selected bibliography, and an index are included.

1.000 Music Graphics: A Compilation of Packaging, Posters, and Other Sound Solutions

 

A catalog of design ideas for music-related materialThis book will offer designers a vast collection of inspiring and innovative graphic works from the world of music. The main emphasis will be on music graphics including album/CD covers and inside spreads, packaging, posters, and other sales materials from the past decade.Music makes the world go 'round, and great album designs generate sales for the record companies that back the artists. By showing diverse album graphics from the last decade, designers get a glimpse into what makes or breaks album sales and just how risky the content can be before it goes too far. Many designers hope to break into the music business by way of design, and this collection will offer insight and inspiration for those venturing in. This book will be a compendium of all types of graphically appealing album art, covering all kinds of music and music developers.

 

Stoltz Design (Author)  

 

100 Posters That Changed The World

 

collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama.

Classic posters from the last 300 years and the stories behind them.

Posters have always been designed to seek an immediate response. From the time when paper was first affordable, the poster has been used to provoke a direct reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, or the offer of entertainment. Newspapers might have the advantage of ubiquity in spreading

the word, but a poster could be tightly targeted by its location.

Organized chronologically, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the history of poster design from their earliest forms as a means of information communication to the more subtle visual communication of the 21st century.

As printing became cheaper, posters were used for more than just promoting the capture of local villains or announcing government decrees. Advertisements took over, citing up-and-coming events, auctions, public meetings, political rallies, sports games, lectures and theatrical performances.

The technological leaps from engraving to aquatints to lithography, chromolithography and the offset press, all had their impact on what could be advertised by poster, and the art form took off spectacularly in the late 19th century with the influence of Lautrec and the Paris nightclubs. From then on, the poster became a sophisticated means of visual communication.

In the West it was used to sell products – in the East it was used to sell regimes and control behaviour.

Along with historic moments in poster evolution, 100 Posters That Changed the World charts the most impactful designs of the last 300 years – images that communicate a message whether commercial or political, images that sell a film, a musical, a cause or used for decoration, inspiration, motivation and affirmation. The affirmation for teenagers in the 1970s that Farah Fawcett was looking at you.

 

In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings

 

Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned artist’s most famous paintings in this beautiful art book and travelogue, illustrated with more than 250 black-and-white and full-color images throughout.

In 1990, two photographers and art enthusiasts, Danilo De Marco and Mario Dondero, set out to explore the details of Vincent Van Gogh’s life, retracing his journey across Europe by foot and by train. Armed with the love and knowledge of Van Gogh’s work, they traveled from the Netherlands to England, Belgium, and France to take in the sights as Van Gogh might have seen them a century earlier. They also turned to art historian Gloria Fossi to better understand, experience, and contextualize Van Gogh’s brilliant mind, drawing insights from his personal letters and other historical documents. 

Van Gogh’s well-documented travels come alive in this gorgeous book which brings together the landscapes, architecture, portraits, and cultural references that inspired his art. The authors juxtapose vintage and contemporary photographs with Van Gogh’s renditions, demonstrating not only the passage of time, but Van Gogh’s unique artistic vision, brilliantly revealed brushstroke by brushstroke. From the Netherlands, where the artist was born, to his last days in France, no place he visited in his 37 years is left unexplored, and all have become timeless landmarks through his art.

In Search of Van Gogh brings into focus the places and objects that inspired and fueled Van Gogh’s artistic genius and offers fresh insights into his prolific work and process. In searching for the artist’s mind and soul, the authors create a pointillistic portrait of a human being whose life was remarkable, and whose story must be shared for generations to come. 

 

Gloria Fossi (Author), Danilo De Marco (Photographer),