ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1986.
Oblast: Dizajn
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Liberty Style - The Classic Years 1898-1910 / Mervyn Levy


Njujork, SAD 1986. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, bogato ilustrovano, veliki format (27 cm), 160 strana.
Napomena: pečat prethodnog vlasnika; knjiga je veoma dobro očuvana.



The TALENTS of brilliant assembly of designers — of pewterware, silver, jewellery, ceramics, furniture and textiles — were harnessed around the turn of the century by the great London store of Liberty & Co to create a distinctive new look. They produced original work of the highest quality, setting trend in artistic expression that reacted strongly against the decadence of the Aesthetic Movement and the fussiness of Victoriana, It came to be known worldwide ag the Liberty Style.
Its hallmark wag a purity of form and refinement of ornament that gave it immediate and lasting appeal. These qualities are the characteristics of the work of Archibald Knox, Liberty`s key designer, whose metalwork and jewellery, much of it inspired by the prototypes of Celtic art, are among the finest of their period. His inventiveness and clarity of expression had a profound influence on the development of the Liberty Style, and it was during the years of his association with the firm that, in terms of new, adventurous design, Liberty`s reached its zenith. Men such as Christopher Dregser, C. F.A. Voysey, Harry Napper of the Silver Studio and Leonard Wyburd all produced brilliantly conceived and executed work for Liberty and Co in the classic years, establishing the firm`s reputation for quality, originality and craftsmanship.
The Liberty Style played a critical role in steering contemporary aesthetics in a new direction. This pictorial account of its evolution e celebrates the creative imagination and commercial skills of the founder of the company, Arthur Lasenby Liberty, a man of great vision and entrepreneurial flair, and the genius of the many designer-craftsmen he employed. It also makes clear the connections that exist between their work and that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, William Morris and Associates of the Arts and Crafts Movement, all of them active in Britain around the same time, and it demonstrates Liberty`s inspirational links with the Cubists, the Vieona Secessionists and the Bauhaus in Europe.
As well as examining the significance of the Liberty Style and placing it in its artistic context, this elegant monograph illustrates an extensive range of the work supplied to the firm between 1898 and 1910, and documents in two invaluable directories the companies and individual designers who produced it.


THE AUTHOR
MERVYN LEVY, author, artist and broadcaster, was born in Swansea and educated at Swansea Grammar School, Swansea School of Art, The Royal College of Art and Sandhurst. He lectured in art at the universities of Bristol and London and later worked as Features Editor on Studio Magazine. He is the author of some twenty books, among them The Artist and the Nude, The Human Form in Art, Drawing and Sculpture, The Lithographs of Whistler, The Paintings of D.H. Lawrence, Gaudier-Brzeska: Drawings and Sculpture, The Drawings of LS. Lowry, The Paintings of L.S. Lowry and, most recently, Ruskin Spear, the first of a series of monographs on Royal Academicians and their work. He has also written articles and features for The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statespnan and has worked as a broadcaster for the BBC on Kaleidoscope and Meridian. He is widely represented in national and international art galleries: his subjects include portraits of Dylan Thomas and Ruskin Spear in the National Portrait Gallery, London, and portraits of Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell in the Collection of the University of Texas.
At present he works as an interviewer with BBC Sound Archives.




Sadržaj:
Acknowledgments
Foreword by A. I. Stewart / Liberty
Introduction
The Evolution of the Liberty Style
The Haseler Connection
Marks and Numbers
Directory of Manufacturers
Directory of Artists and Designers
Bibliography
Exhibition Catalogues
Index