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Author Kuenzli, KatherineM

Title The Nabis and Intimate Modernism : Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Si?e
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Intimacy and the Dream of Public Art; Transgressing Spatial and Gender Distinctions; The Home as a Total Work of Art; The Nabis and Modernism; Method; 1 Decorating the Street, Decorating the Home: Bonnard's Women in the Garden and the Poster; Women in the Garden: Between Posters and Painterly Symbolism; Bonnard's Intimate Paris; Posters and the Dream of Unity; A Hybrid Art Form; 2 Wagner as Intimist: Vuillard's Desmarais Decoration and the Symbolist Theater; The Nabis and the Symbolist Theater
Interior/InteriorityWagnerian Painterly Aesthetics; 3 Modernism and Catholicism in Maurice Denis's Frauenliebe und Leben; Schumann and Wagner; Denis's Neo-Traditionism; Symbolists and Decadents; Matter and Spirit; 4 Two Versions of the Gesamtkunstwerk : The Nabis and the Art Nouveau Interior; Theorizing the Art Nouveau Interior; The Gesamtkunstwerk and the Nabi Interior; 5 The Art of Reverie: Vuillard's Vaquez Decoration and the Nabis' Critical Legacy; Unfamiliar Domesticity; The Art of Reverie; The Vaquez Panels' Critical Reception
Conclusion: An Armchair Aesthetic: From the Nabis to Matisse and BeyondBibliography; Index
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ISBN 9781351542050
1351542052