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Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (English, French, German, Hardcover)
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Art for All. The Colour Woodcut in Vienna around 1900 (English, French, German, Hardcover)
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At the turn of the 20th century, amid the domed grandeur of Vienna,
a group of Secession artists reclaimed the humble woodblock. The
gesture, though short-lived, and long overlooked by established art
histories, may be seen as a decisive social, as well as aesthetic,
moment. Elevating a primarily illustrative, mass-production medium
to the status of fine art, the woodblock revival set a formal
precedent for Expressionism while democratizing an art for all.
Coinciding with the traveling exhibition through the Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Albertina, Vienna, this TASCHEN edition
brings together leading examples of the Viennese woodblock
renaissance to give a long overdue exploration of its achievements
and influence. Through prints, publications, calendars and pages
from Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, it
gathers works remarkable for their graphic and chromatic intensity,
and vital with the traces of japonisme as much as the stylistic
seeds of Die Brucke, Der Blaue Reiter and later Expressionist
movements. Through figure studies, landscapes, patterns, and
typographical treasures, the featured works are accompanied by
detailed captions, as well as essays exploring their aesthetic and
ideological implications, and biographies for the more than 40
artists. Examining their stark contours, stylization of the surface
per se, and tendency towards contained colour areas we evaluate the
Viennese woodblocks as essential harbingers, and benchmarks, of the
20th century modernism to come. At the same time, we assess how the
dissemination of the woodblocksubstantiated the Seccessionist claim
for a democratized, all-encompassing art, while adding to their
reappraisal of originality, and authenticity, and convention.
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