Konsthistoria & stilar 1800 - 1900

Arts & Crafts-rörelsen började som en motreaktion till industrialismen och de rådande stilidealen i Storbritannien vid 1800-talets mitt. De grundläggande idéerna hos dess anhängare, bland andra konstkritikern John Ruskin och konstnären William Mor...

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Välkommen till Lilla Hyttnäs, hem åt två av de största konstnärskapen Sverige någonsin sett.¿ När Carl och Karin Larsson flyttade hem till Sverige efter flera år utomlands, fick de en liten stuga i Sundborn av Karins far. Stugan i Dalarna blev Car...

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Welcome to Lilla Hyttnäs, home to two of the greatest artists Sweden has ever seen. ¿ When Carl and Karin Larsson moved back to Sweden after several years abroad, they were given a small cabin in Sundborn by Karin's father. The cottage in Dalarna ...

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"Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. Th...

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Flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of...

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Everyone knows Carl Larsson House in Sundborn, the world-famous artists' home in rural Sweden. Everyone knows who Carl Larsson was. Everyone has seen his wife, Karin, in his paintings. Many people know she had real talent and, like her husband, wa...

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"ett praktverk om fotografiets och fotograferandets historia. Hon har tillsammans med 15 andra experter sammanställt, producerat och redigerat vad som nog bör ses som ett svenskt standardverk för fotohistoria. Betyg 5" BTJ Fotografihistorier skild...

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Alla känner till Carl Larsson-gården i Sundborn, det världsberömda konstnärshemmet i Dalarna. Alla vet vem Carl Larsson var. Och alla har sett hans Karin på tavlorna. Många vet också att hon i likhet med sin man hade konstnärlig begåvning och en g...

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Hur Taserudsjugend kom till världen Bröderna Eriksson (Ola, Karl och Elis) övertog sin fars snickeri 1891 och startade Bröderna Erikssons Möbelverkstad i Arvika. De var då alla välutbildade och snickeriet var redo utföra avancerade beställningar. ...

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Konstnärinnan Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) var synnerligen produktiv och mycket uppmärksammad på sin tid, med framgångsrika utställningar i hela världen. Hennes konstnärliga och litterära skapande tog henne långt utanför Sverige - förutom Europa även ti...

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I Urshult kunde en fästman vid 1700-talets mitt i trolovningsgåvor ge en vackert arbetad psalmbok, en silverkedja, ett silverbälte eller lista, band eller borda att bära om livet, en silversked med krona och löv på skaftet, åtskilliga band att pry...

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Romantikens bildvärld både lockar och skrämmer. Den öppnar sig mot okända rum av mörker, dimma och ljus. Bagateller förvandlas till poesi. Den stimulerar sökande och längtan, blottar medvetandets djup och kalibrerar vår känslighet. Bilderna spegla...

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German-english edition The epochal term " New Objectivity" became synonymous with the cultural awakening of the 92 s, and with the rationalism and objective precision to be observed in art as well as architecture, design, photography and literatur...

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Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of do...

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Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacular photographs taken between the years 1850 and 1950. This visual narrative of astonishing sensitiv...

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If you were a consumer of literature in the nineteenth century, chances are the volumes in your library featured the illustrations of Gustave Doré. From the Bible to Shakespeare, Balzac to Milton, Cervantes to Poe, Doré's intricate, romantic, and ...

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Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) - court physician to the King of Saxony - was a naturalist, amateur painter and theoretician of landscape painting whose "Nine Letters on Landscape Painting" is an important document of early German Romanticism and an...

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Symbols are all around us - some mysterious, some timeless, some arcane and some prosaic. But what are their origins? What does the infinity symbol really signify? Do you understand yin and yang? And why is the swastika really a good luck sign? Th...

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Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the re...

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Första gången mode-Sverige vaknade till medvetande var när Augusta Lundin öppnade sitt modehus vid Brunkebergstorg på 1870-talet. Runt sekelskiftet 1900 ansågs Mamsell Augusta vara modets okrönta drottning. Det som ger Augusta Lundin en särskild p...

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Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau's bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismiss...

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-- Stunning watercolour paintings by one of Sweden's best-loved artists -- Fascinating insight into Swedish rural and artistic life in the late nineteenth century -- Accompanied by an explanatory text giving more detail about his life and techniqu...

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Interior designer and television host Jeremiah Brent explores the emotional meaning of home in this warm and inviting book that illuminates what make peoples' spaces so personally significant. For many of us, our houses are more than just where we...

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Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Focusing o...

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More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life, including his brothers and friends, employees, and the workers and bourgeois in his Parisian neighborhood. Male subje...

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This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdolls offers a penetrating analysis of the very ways issu...

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15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases recently discovered 18th century embroidery patterns e...

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No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye!" who stayed true to the princi...

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John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolour was unconventional. Disregarding late-nineteenth-century aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense str...

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Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fo...

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