Quick show of hands: Who loves Art Nouveau?
I do!
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 1:50:26 pm PST #18164 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Jan 21, 2011 1:51:04 pm PST #18165 of 30001
hwæt
I love Art Nouveau, except that I hate that the next generation had to rebel against it and create Modernism.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2011 1:51:22 pm PST #18166 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Art Deco FTW.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2011 1:54:26 pm PST #18167 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My two remaining fingers say Art Nouveau!
tommyrot - Jan 21, 2011 1:55:11 pm PST #18168 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are Art Deco and Art Nouveau related?
meara - Jan 21, 2011 1:56:26 pm PST #18169 of 30001
BLOW MY MIND, HEC!
beekaytee - Jan 21, 2011 1:59:07 pm PST #18170 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Mucha 4evah. Go Nouveau!
Amy - Jan 21, 2011 2:00:52 pm PST #18171 of 30001
Because books.
My two remaining fingers say Art Nouveau!
Sophia, buy bandaids!
Consuela - Jan 21, 2011 2:02:19 pm PST #18172 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I do like Art Nouveau, although when we went to the post-Impressionists at the deYoung last weekend my niece asked what Art Nouveau was and I wasn't able to describe it.
So, blow my mind! (Um, in a SFW way.)
Flea: exactly. Argh. I've decided the angst level is sufficiently high I get to leave early today. Just not sure when. I've found a friend to go get drinks with, though.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2011 2:02:22 pm PST #18173 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Art Deco FTW.
You can love them both! I do.
You should've seen the huge Art Deco exhibit they had in SF a few years back. It included, among other things, the entire entrance way and perfume counter from a Parisian department store done in the Deco style from the late 20s.
Anyway, back to Art Nouveau.
One of my favorite blogs is by the British designer and illustrator, John Coulthart. He has a wide range of interests including Art Nouveau and the history of illustration.
He recently posted about the German magazine Deutsche Kunst & Dekoration which chronicled the best in German design at the turn of the century.
Germans, being the meticulous little scholars that they are, have scanned the entire run of the magazine and posted it online, free. 7500 pages of Art Nouveau right here.
But there's more!
Coulthart had previously written about the German humor magazine Jugend which was also contemporaneous with the Art Nouveau era and reveled in its style.
Guess what? It's also available entirely free from the University of Heidelberg.
So if you've been sitting around thinking, "You know, it'd be cool if I could have the entire print run of two turn-of-the-century German magazines that specialized in Art Nouveau. For free. Without getting up from my chair." Well, now you do.