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

Contributor(s): Bowe, Nicola Gordon [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Irish Academic Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0716524910.Subject(s): Design -- History -- 19th century | Design -- History -- 20th century | Nationalism and architecture | Vernacular architecture -- History -- 19th century | Vernacular architecture -- History -- 20th century | Romanticism in artDDC classification: 745.4441
Contents:
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Richly illustrated essays which explore aspects of romanticism in art, architecture and design in North America, England, Russia, Norway, Finland, Japan, Poland, Hungary and Ireland. They outline the expression that evolved as each nation sought the roots of its own culture, in developing a powerful visual vocabulary.

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.

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