The Nabis and intimate modernism
Subtitle: painting and the decorative at the fin-de-siècle
By: Katherine M. Kuenzli.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780754667773
Subjects: Nabis (Group of artists); Painting, French -- 19th century; Decoration and ornament -- Influence
Other titles: Painting and the decorative at the fin-de-siècle
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Decorating the street, decorating the home : Bonnard's women in a garden and the poster; title: Wagner as intimist : Vuillard's Desmarais decoration and the symbolist theater; title: Modernism and catholicism in Maurice Denis's Frauenliebe und Leben; title: Two versions of the Gesamtkunstwerk : the Nabis and the art nouveau interior; title: The art of reverie : Vuillard's Vaquez decoration and the Nabis' critical legacy; title: Conclusion. An armchair aesthetic : from the Nabis to Matisse and beyond.