TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rak,Jiří
AU  - Vondráček,Radim
AU  - Terenzi,Claudia
TI  - Biedermeier: art and culture in central Europe, 1815-1848 
SN  - 888118866X
AV  - N6465.B5 B5413 2001
U1  - 709.4309034 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Milano, Italy
PB  - Skira
KW  - Biedermeier (Art)
KW  - Europe, Central
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Art, European
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Art
KW  - Czech Republic
KW  - Prague
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Translation of: Biedermeier : arte e cultura nella Mitteleuropa : [Padova, Palazzo della Ragione, 7 maggio-10 settembre 2000]; Contributors: Jiři Rak, Radim Vondráček, and Claudia Terenzi; Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy, May 7-Sept. 10, 2000; Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Padua, Palazzo della Ragione, 7 May-10 Sept. 2000; Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263); The Biedermeier period in Austria and Bohemia and its Legacy; Jiri Rak --; Biedermeier and its Semantics; Radim Vondracek --; Biedermeier: A Bourgeois Style in the Restoration Period; Claudia Terenzi; Sect. 1; The Social Ethos of the Biedermeier Period; Sect. 2; Placing the Objects: Form and Style; Sect. 3; The Cult of the Family and Public Spirit; Sect. 4; The City: Life and Entertainment; Sect. 5; Biedermeier: Between Nature and Industry; Sect. 6; The 1848 Revolution and the End of Biedermeier; Bibliography of European Biedermeier; Edited by Laura Dimitrio
N2  - "A wave of revolutionary ideals, the collapse of Napoleon's imperial dreams and the changes wrought by the Restoration all contributed to the birth in Europe of new models of social behaviour accompanied by a taste in art for something other than the empire style with its echoes of the classical period. Attention turned instead to the intimate, domestic sphere, to the everyday events in the world of the middle class and to a sentimental and slightly melancholic vision of nature. In Central Europe and especially Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and northern Germany, this milieu came to be defined as "Biedermeier". More than an artistic style, Biedermeier was a way of life which had a profound influence on all the arts in Europe from 1815 to 1848 - although with distinct regional variations, for example, in Russia, Scandinavia, France of Charles X and Louis Philippe, Italy of Carlo Alberto of Savoy and in Victorian England. It was especially influential in the areas of furniture design and the decorative arts. This book, with its up-to-date critical and historical reading of Biedermeier, offers an extraordinarily rich repertoire of paintings, glassware, ceramics, textiles and jewellery. It also includes an annotated bibliography providing an overview of the Biedermeier phenomenon, a phenomenon which stands at the root of an emerging middle-class culture in Europe as well as of international modernism."--BOOK JACKET
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