Mucha by Patrick Bade

Mucha by Patrick Bade

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 paintings have inspired 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 of 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.

PATRICK BADE is an art historian, writer and occasional broadcaster. He studied at University College London and the Courtauld Institute of Art and was senior lecturer at Christie's Education in London for many years. He has lectured at the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, the Royal Opera House, the Art Fund and several universities. Subjects of his art books include Klimt, Renoir, Degas, Mucha, Burne Jones, Beardsley, Rops, Lautrec and Lempicka, while Music Wars: 1937-1945 (2012) explores the role of music in the Second World War.

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ISBN 13	9781840137675
ISBN 10	1840137673
Title	Mucha
Author	Patrick Bade
Series	Perfect Squares
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grange Books
Year published	2005-07-01
Number of pages	80
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