{"product_id":"czech-secession-art-and-architecture-1890-1914","title":"Czech Secession: Art and Architecture 1890–1914","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Petr Wittlich \u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Adrian Dean \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lavishly illustrated exploration of forward-looking Czech art around the turn of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough it’s less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna, 1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siècle cultural center as its Mittel European peers. At the end of the nineteenth century, the city found itself home to a fervent coterie of young visual artists all deliberately pushing against—indeed, seeking to secede from—the traditional artistic structures of the day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book traces Czech Secessionist art from the turn of the twentieth century by following its three main stylistic schools: naturalistic-impressionistic, symbolist, and ornamental-decorative. Though these styles developed separately, their symbiotic relationship gives the art a deeper significance and disrupts the traditional understanding of Art Nouveau and Secessionist art as an eclectic decorative style that faded away at the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than three hundred color plates, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCzech Secession\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a fittingly lush tribute to one city’s underappreciated and forward-looking artistic blossoming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardcover \u003cbr\u003e496 pages \u003cbr\u003eKarolinum Press, Charles University 2023 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10.5 x 1.9 x 9.25 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN \u003cspan\u003e9788024651330\u003cbr\u003eSecession, Architecture \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43239006601384,"sku":"9788024651330","price":46.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/CzechSecession.jpg?v=1677776222","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/czech-secession-art-and-architecture-1890-1914","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}