Alphonse Mucha

By Patrick Bade, Victoria Charles
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Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the "Mucha style" for the legions of imitators who adapted the master's celebrated tableaux. Today, his distinctive depictions of lithe young women in classical dress have become a pop cultural touchstone, inspiring album covers, comic books, and everything in between. Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles offer readers an inspiring survey of Mucha's career, illustrated with over one hundred lustrous images, from early Parisian advertisements and posters for Sandra Bernhardt, to the famous historical murals painted just before his death, at the age of 78, in 1939.

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Length1 hr 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 17, 2012
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Alphonse Alphonse
2Author(s): Patrick Bade and Victoria Charles
3ART NOUVEAU
4The Origins of Art Nouveau
5Gismonda, 1894. Colour lithograph, 216 x 74.2 cm. Mucha Museum,Prague. (p. 10)
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6England: Cradle of Art Nouveau
7Belgium: The Flowering of Art Nouveau
8France: A Passion for Art Nouveau
9Art Nouveau at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris
10The French Pavilion
11The English Pavilion
12The American Pavilion
13The Belgian Pavilion
14The German Pavilion
15The Austrian Pavilion
16The Hungarian Pavilion
17The Dutch Pavilion
18The Danish Pavilion
19The Swedish and Norwegian Pavilions
20The Russian Pavilion
21The Finnish Pavilion
22MUCHA
23Mucha and Art Nouveau
24Conclusion
25WORKS
26Sketch for Lefèvre-Utile biscuit box with scene of Naples, 1897. Private collection.
27Sketch for Lefèvre-Utile biscuit box with scene of Venice, 1897. Private collection.
28GRAPHIC WORKS
29Sketch for an illustration in the book Ilsée, Princesse de Tripoli, 1897.
30Sketch for a calendar, 1898.
31Sketch for a calendar, 1900.
32Study for a panneau décoratif, 1900. Sketch.
33Biography
34Chavannes, Redon, Moreau, and Huysmans.
35CHAMPIGNEULE, Bernard. Art Nouveau. New York: BarronÊs Educational Series Inc., 1972.
36Index
37For Theirs Is the Kingdom of Heaven, 1906
38Cover sketch for the magazine Zlatá Praha, 1890s Cycles Perfecta (detail), 1902
39(the Nestlé CompanyÊs tribute to Queen VictoriaÊs 60th Jubilee), 1897
40Documents décoratifs, board 45, 1902
41Y Youth from the Chocolat Masson Calendar, 1897
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