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The Art of Life

Art Nouveau Posters and Visual Culture of the Hungarian Seccession
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The Art of Life presents the first golden age of Hungarian poster art, in an international context, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the Art Nouveau style, including works by great artists of the genre Mucha, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Moser and others. They are joined by iconic works by well-known Hungarian artists, including Faragó, Bíró, Helbing, Tuszkay, and works by artists who have been undeservedly forgotten. This book offers insight into Art Nouveau posters and other graphic design work, along with objects of applied art and architecture which also play a role. The posters advertise a wide variety of phenomena, newspapers, theatres, cabarets, amusement parlours and commercial products, etc., thus recalling the era in which they were created. The Art of Life reveals the world of bourgeois homes, urban nightlife at the turn of the century, the atmosphere of cafés, the dress and habits of urban women, the leisure activities popular at the turn of the century, cycling, visits to spas and glittering balls. The posters, with their subtle painterly solutions or decorative line, promote the Art Nouveau idea of beauty, delight or humour. They recreate the atmosphere of the last happy years of peace before the First World War.
The editor is Anikó Katona and the authors are Brunner Attila, Katona Anikó, Bakos Katalin, Prékopa Ágnes, Gellér Katalin, Földi Eszter, Márkus Dorottya, Horányi Éva and Kis-Tamás Anna.
* Accompanies a major exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery. * Includes work by Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec as well as many others. * Art Nouveau posters are highly sort after and this book illustratesmany well known an lesser known works. * Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery, 3 April – 5 October 2025
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