Art nouveau and the classical tradition /

Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns - sexuality, death and the nature of art - its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of classi...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Warren, Richard (Classicist) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
Series:	Imagines - Classical receptions in the visual performing arts.
Subjects:	Art nouveau. Modernism (Art) > Classical influences. Antike. Jugendstil. Kunst. Mythologie. Rezeption.