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Art Nouveau across Europe (Online) 
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Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Overview

Understand how an art work or design can reflect the ideas and aspirations of an artist, a patron and the society for which it was produced

Duration

10 weeks

Total fee

26,117

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
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Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Explore the development of new ideas about art and design
  • To look closely and analytically at the art, design and architecture of the period
  • Self-expression of ideas through writing and discussion
  • Developed a detailed understanding of selected national case studies or design fields based on their areas of interest
More about this course
  • This course examines the richness and variety of European Art Nouveau
  • The appearance of this style differed hugely from city to city and from artist to artist, but shared a commitment to a varied and often contradictory set of principles
  • We will explore the complex impulses, anxieties and hopes for the future that shaped the visual arts around 1900

Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Curriculum

Origins of Art Nouveau: Design Reform and Arts and Crafts

Design reform: A new style for a new age

Pugin and the Gothic revival

Design reform in Britain

John Ruskin and truth in architecture

The Arts and Crafts movement

Arts and Crafts to Art Nouveau

Brussels and the birth of Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau ? A definition

Art Nouveau in Brussels

Victor Horta

Horta House, 1898?1900

Exploring Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau city: Paris and Vienna

Paris: Art Nouveau and the new woman

Paris 1900 World?s Fair

Vienna

Secession: The total work of art

Visual analysis: René Lalique and Josef Hoffmann

Art Nouveau Metro stations: A comparison

Art Nouveau: Entrepreneurs and the retail environment

Retailing Art Nouveau

Bing?s Art Nouveau

Studio Elvira

Georges Fouquet jewellery shop by Mucha, 1900

Reflection: The Willow Tearooms

Symbolism: Art Nouveau and fine art

Symbolism ? Definitions

Secession: The break from the Academy

Symbolism: The occult and the spiritual

Symbolism: Psychology and the unconscious

The visual language of Symbolism

How does Symbolism relate to Art Nouveau?

The search for a national style: Russia and Poland

National revivals

Abramtsevo and the Russian revival

Exploring Abramtsevo

Polish national revival ? Zakopane style

StanisBaw WyspiaDski

Art Nouveau Graphic Art: Posters and Magazines

The Modern Poster

Poster design

Women in the iconography of Art Nouveau

Art periodicals

Exploring Art Nouveau periodicals across Europe

The Art Nouveau object

Wiener Werkstätte

Art Nouveau manufacturing in Nancy

Comparative analysis

Peter Behrens: Art Nouveau and design for mass manufacturing

The United Workshops, Munich

Art Nouveau objects

The home as a work of art

The artist?s house

The artistic house in the city

The patron of the artistic house

The home as a total work of art: Palais Stoclet

Reflecting on the home as a work of art

The Strange Death of Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau monument

The Art Nouveau designer: Antoni Gaudí

Can a style die?

Art Nouveau?s legacy: Art Deco and Modernism

Art Nouveau: Final reflections

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Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Faculty details

Mr Gordon Reavley
Gordon Reavley teaches topics in Art History and Visual and Material Culture for Oxford University's Dept of Continuing Education (OUDCE), and Critical Theory for the University of Nottingham. He has been widely published on American social and cultural history and on the history and theory of art and design.

Art Nouveau across Europe (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
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