Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
3
result(s) for
"Art nouveau (Architecture) Belgium."
Sort by:
Victor Horta : the architect of art nouveau
In the decade following the success of his design for the Hمotel Tassel in Brussels in 1893, Victor Horta, the creator of Art Nouveau architecture, produced more than forty buildings--and a movement. Prepared in close collaboration with the Horta Museum, Brussels, 'Victor Horta: The Architect of Art Nouveau' discusses the many influences on Horta's designs and his legacy. The richly ornamental style of Art Nouveau, characterized by fluid lines based on natural forms, expressed a desire to abandon the historical styles of the nineteenth century and to develop a language that was beautifully crafted and thoroughly contemporary, laying the foundations for the development of modernism in architecture and interior design.
Book
From Africa Palace to AfricaMuseum
In 1897, King Leopold II of Belgium opened the Brussels International Exposition, which, in the Palace of the Colonies, showcased objects and people from the Congo Free State. They were displayed as the property of the King, who was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. The Palace of the Colonies was a combination of classically inspired imperial architecture and references to the Congo. The exposition was a huge success. As a result, the King built Africa Palace, a permanent ethnographic museum dedicated to his idea of Congo. It was located adjacent to his palace in Tervuren, now a suburb outside of Brussels. In 2018, the museum reopened as AfricaMuseum. This paper examines the inherent colonial frame of AfricaMuseum, both physically and ideologically, that continue to limit a significant socio-political shift for the museum, and the contemporary art pieces by Congolese and Burundian artists that have been tasked with the heavy lifting in shifting the narrative.
Journal Article
Design in Belgium before Art Nouveau: Art, Industry and the Reform of Artistic Education in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
This paper analyses the Belgian contribution to the design reform movement in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hitherto, few studies have been dedicated to the history of design practices in Belgium in the decades that preceded the birth of Art Nouveau. In particular, the extremely laborious acknowledgement of an official status for the design discipline, legitimized through the reform of education in the attempt to improve teaching methods in the academies and in the art schools and to raise the quality of the industrial product, has only been partially explored. The support and the intersection of a series of various documentary sources—archive funds, printed records, reports and essays concerning the domain of arts and their influence on industry—have helped in recreating the background of Belgian decorative arts reform. Documentary analysis has permitted the evaluation of diverse experiences within the theoretical and didactic framework, illustrating their possible contribution in the field of technical and practical literature, in artistic instruction and in the instruments of transmission and representation. Moreover, this reform process had led, at the end of the century, towards some of the most remarkable outcomes in Belgium, contributing to the advent of Art Nouveau.
Journal Article