The fin de si\u00e8cle was a period of incisive change: urbanisation, the rise of mass consumption and advertising, industrialisation, the class struggle, the women\u2019s movement, the large-scale distribution of print.<\/p>\n
Artists and designers went in search of new forms; the new art, art nouveau, became popular throughout Europe as it was distributed through magazines and posters, but also through the world expositions which presented the latest applied art for the modern bourgeoisie to embellish their lives with.<\/p>\n
The book contains work of Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley and Ren\u00e9 Lalique and also of the women artists Lo\u00efe Fuller, Sarah Bernhardt, Wilhelmina Drupsteen, K\u00e4the Buchler and Sylvia Pankhurst.<\/p>\n
Goddesses of Art Nouveau<\/em> sheds new light on an extraordinary era and on the question as to how the image of women was used in paintings, spectacular jewellery, the Rolls Royce mascot, advertising posters and book covers, made by women and men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"