Czech Secession: Art and Architecture 1890-1914

At the end of the 19th century, Prague was a cultural center with a group of young visual artists pushing against traditional structures. This book explores Czech Secessionist art from the turn of the twentieth century, tracing its three main stylistic schools: naturalistic-impressionistic, symbolist, and ornamental-decorative. Illustrated with over three hundred color plates, it is a tribute to the city's underappreciated and forward-looking artistic blossoming.

Format: Hardback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 24 April 2023
Publisher: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic

Though its less widely heralded than Berlin and Vienna,1890s Prague was every bit as much a fin-de-siècle cultural center as its Mittel European peers. At the end of the nineteenth century, the city found itself home to a fervent coterie of young visual artists, all deliberately pushing against—indeed, seeking to secede from—the traditional artistic structures of the day.

This book traces Czech Secessionist art from the turn of the twentieth century by following its three main stylistic schools: naturalistic-impressionistic, symbolist, and ornamental-decorative. Though these styles developed separately, their symbiotic relationship gives the art a deeper significance and disrupts the traditional understanding of Art Nouveau and Secessionist art as an eclectic decorative style that faded away at the beginning of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than three hundred color plates, Czech Secession is a fittingly lush tribute to one city's underappreciated and forward-looking artistic blossoming.

Weight: 2580g
Dimension: 245 x 272 x 47 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9788024651330