Arabesque:

"With a history stretching back to antiquity, the sinuously curving decorative motif now known as 'arabesque' lies at the heart of debates over ornament and meaning in art. Implying infinite freedom and organically evolving form, arabesque is deeply associated with Islamic art and arc...

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1. Verfasser: Leonard, Anne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Williamstown, Massachusetts Clark Art Institute [2019]
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Zusammenfassung:"With a history stretching back to antiquity, the sinuously curving decorative motif now known as 'arabesque' lies at the heart of debates over ornament and meaning in art. Implying infinite freedom and organically evolving form, arabesque is deeply associated with Islamic art and architecture while being at the same time a focal interest of several European art movements. Long relegated to the status of a decorative border, arabesque found new life in the nineteenth century, coming into its own as an independent driver of pictorial innovation. Featuring a select array of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, posters, furniture, and textiles, this exhibition traces a series of moments in nineteenth-century European art when arabesque was in the ascendant--from German Romanticism through Art Nouveau"--Foreword
Beschreibung:Published on occasion of the exhibition held at the Clark Art Institute, December 14, 2019-March 22, 2020
Beschreibung:63 Seiten 27 cm
ISBN:9781935998426

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