French art nouveau ceramics - Paul Arthur
an illustrated dictionary
KORTE INHOUD
This book is a unique and comprehensive illustrated dictionary of French Art Nouveau Ceramics. A census conducted in 1901 indicated the existence of some 209 producers of pottery in France, employing a total of around 5,800 full-time labourers. This great activity stimulated a parallel development in the arts, including the search for new expressions in art pottery, giving birth to l'art nouveau, a great and eclectic synthesis of a number of other art styles. Largely through British arts and crafts, and the work of artists like the Manxman Archibald Knox, it reached far back into the prehistory of Celtic art. To this were added later medieval elements, through the gothic revival championed by William Morris.The book focuses especially on artists working stoneware or gre's, faience, and terracotta. It aims to provide a general survey of the many artists working in these areas, and includes brief accounts of the ceramics work of sculptors and painters whose wider output is already well known
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La fin du XIX? et le debut du XX siecle sont particulierement prosperes pour la ceramique francaise. En 1901, pres de 210 poteries ou ateliers emploient pres de 6 000 personnes. Influences par la nature et style rococo, les ceramistes ont adopte les courbes, les formes et l'iconographie de l'Art nouveau, egalement marque par l'art chinois ou japonais : la boutique La Porte chinoise a ouvert en 1853, et Felix Bracquemond, qui a decouvert un des volumes de Hokusai Manga, decore en 1856 un service de porcela...
