Carolyn Swan Needell – författare

An exuberant, radical style, Art Nouveau blithely trampled many of the Victorian Age's orthodoxies of art and design. Exploding age-old strictures with its fanciful approach to furniture, graphic arts, jewellery, architecture and more, Art Nouveau also embraced new technologies and incorporated foreign stylistic flourishes. It was also unabashedly luxurious and sensual. The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art brings together approximately 120 of the finest Art Nouveau treasures from the uncommonly rich holdings of the Chrysler Museum of Art, drawing primarily from the gifts of Walter P. and Jean Chrysler, whose homes were once the havens for these opulent treasures. Designing for a range of clients and settings including domestic interiors, innovative artists such as de Feure, Majorelle, and Galle fashioned their eclectic works to play off each other in harmonious visual arrangements, conceiving of Art Nouveau as an enveloping style. This stunningly illustrated comprehensive volume gathers a profusion of Art Nouveau works and accessories-furniture, paintings, sculpture, mosaics, books, posters, prints, lamps, glass, and other stunning objets d'art- all of them originally designed and coordinated to complement each other in elaborate ensembles. AUTHORS: Lloyd DeWitt is chief curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art, Chrysler Museum of Art. Carolyn S. Needell is Barry Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum of Art. Gabriel P. Weisberg is a leading scholar on Art Nouveau, and on nineteenth-century French art. SELLING POINTS: . Features over 150 beautiful and finely crafted examples of Art Nouveau furniture, decorative arts, and graphic arts, all highlights from a remarkable collection . Collection is exceptional for its quality and breadth . All the major figures of this pivotal artistic movement that thrived from the 1880sthrough the First World War are well represented including Hector Guimard, Emile Galle, Louis Majorelle, Alphonse Mucha and many others 197 colour illustrations

In 1911, the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany created a beautiful stained glass window for a lavish Gilded Age mansion called Pembroke on Long Island. Commissioned by Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, a Dutch immigrant who made a vast fortune mining in the American west, the imagery of the window has long remained an enigma.Now, new historical research by the Chrysler Museum of Art has led to the exciting rediscovery of three lost panels from this window and uncovered the hidden history of the window’s significance and meaning. Woman in a Pergola with Wisteria depicts the renowned American opera singer Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), who is portrayed as the titular character of Verdi’s opera Aïda. This publication reveals the poignant relationship between De Lamar and Nordica, telling the story of their lifelong friendship and the sea captain’s unrequited love for the singer, which he immortalized in Tiffany stained-glass.