Title & Author:

Art and the national dream : the search for vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century design / edited by Nicola Gordon Bowe.

Publication:

Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, ©1993.

Description:

213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : national romanticism : vernacular expression in turn-of-the-century design / Nicola Gordon Bowe -- Recreating a tradition : Christopher Whall (1849-1924) and the arts & crafts renascence of English stained glass / Peter Cormack -- Vernacular expression or Western style? : Josiah Conder and the beginning of modern architectural design in Japan / Toshio Watanabe -- The vernacular in America, 1890-1920 : ideology and design / Wendy Kaplan -- The search for a northwest vernacular : Kirtland Cutter and the rustic picturesque 1888-1920 / Henry Matthews -- Reviving folk art in Russia : the Moscow Zemstvo and the kustar art industries / Wendy Salmond -- Searching for a national style in Polish architecture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century / Malgorzata Omilanowska -- Romantic elements in Hungarian art nouveau / Katalin Geller.
Vernacularism and its special characteristics in Hungarian art / Katalin Keseru -- What is vernacular? or, the search for the "mother-tongue of forms" / Janos Gerle -- Norwegian craft theory and national revival in the 1890s / Patricia G. Berman -- How nationalism was expressed in Finnish architecture at the turn of the last century / Ritva Wäre -- A contextual introduction to romantic nationalism and vernacular expression in the Irish arts and crafts movement, c.1886-1925 / Nicola Gordon Bowe.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book consists of richly illustrated essays which explore aspects of romanticism in art, architecture and design. North America, England, Russia, Norway, Finland, Japan, Poland, Hungary and Ireland are represented by pioneering experts working in a rich field of ongoing research. The reforming influence of Utopian socialism on aspirations towards a recognizable cultural identity and political independence was expressed in a variety of intriguingly analogous national forms and images. As each nation sought the roots of its own culture at the turn of the century, a powerful, often eclectic, visual vocabulary developed which was inspired by folk, native and traditional art, language, literature, music and architecture as well as by heroic periods in the history or mythology of the nation.

ISBN:

0716524910
9780716524915

Subject:

Design History 19th century.
Design History 20th century.
Nationalism and architecture.
Vernacular architecture History 19th century.
Vernacular architecture History 20th century.
Romanticism in art.
Design Histoire 19e siècle.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture.
Architecture vernaculaire Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture vernaculaire Histoire 20e siècle.
Romantisme dans l'art.
Design
Vernacular architecture
Kunstnijverheid.
Architecture vernaculaire Europe de l'Est.
Nationalisme et architecture Europe de l'Est.
Design History

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Bowe, Nicola Gordon.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81566
Call No.: ID NK1510.A768; ID:95-B2721
Status: Available