1. 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
2. Brussels and the birth of Art Nouveau
- Art Nouveau – A definition
- Art Nouveau in Brussels
- Victor Horta
- Horta House, 1898–1900
- Exploring Art Nouveau
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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?
6. The search for a national style: Russia and Poland
- National revivals
- Abramtsevo and the Russian revival
- Exploring Abramtsevo
- Polish national revival – Zakopane style
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Stanisław Wyspiański
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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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