Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

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L’émergence d’un autre ornement Art nouveau au tournant des années 1910 by Aurélien Locatelli

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Les monstres d’Aubrey Beardsley et le « grotesque darwinien » by Catherine Delyfer

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Zoomorphism, Biomimetics and Computational Design by Benedetta Terenzi, Saverio Mecca

“…In architecture, the image of the animal has been used both in allegorical and structural terms: from the Sphinx to the humanistic-Renaissance representations, Art Nouveau to biomorphic architecture. It has likewise inspired the formalization of furnishings: from the animalières and zoomorphic propositions to the bionic that reinterprets the structure and mechanical behaviour, to the computational design experiments that shape the natural behaviors distilled in algorithms.…”
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« Culture for the million, or society as it may be » by Françoise Baillet

“…When in the late nineteenth century Aestheticism slowly lost ground to the Arts and Crafts Movement and then to Decadence and Art Nouveau, the Victorian artistic field had considerably evolved. …”
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The Wagnerschule (Vienna 1894-1912): Wagner and the Moderne Architekture by Ettore Sessa

“…Otto Wagner, between 1894 and 1912, carries out a vertical reform of that principle of the reorganization of the visible which is one of the cornerstones of the Art Nouveau aesthetic revolution. Unlike other Modernist protagonists, the core of pupils of his school (including Hoffmann, Plečnik, Deininger, Schönthal, Hoppe, Fuchs), as well as his assistants (among whom J. …”
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Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator and Aesthete by Audrey Doussot

“…But, above all else, his fairy tale collections are among the illustrated books which contributed, at the turn of the century, to creating a golden age of book illustration (critics generally regard the 1890s as “the second golden age of illustration” in Great Britain, after the 1860s), an exceptional period during which illustration finally won acclaim as a newly-recognized art while Art Nouveau was gradually promoting new standards for artistic creation.…”
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Which Medievalism? The Case of Ford Madox Brown by Laurent Bury

“…During his last creative decades, Brown painted various medieval subjects for the city of Manchester, in a curvilinear, almost Art-Nouveau style. Brown thus went from a patriotic valuation of feudal Britain to a totally free interpretation of the Middle Ages, through a more social appreciation of medieval art. …”
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Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…The arabesque is a type of ornament that achieved considerable popularity during the Art Nouveau movement of the fin/debut-de-siècle. This paper examines how in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s ballet, Daphnis et Chloé (1912), he conceived of this ornament as an ostinato motif whose short rhythmic values trace the “S-curve” of contemporaneous visual arabesque through a periodic descending and ascending melodic contour. …”
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Documentando la arquitectura Republicana de Arequipa, Perú. valoración espacial, constructiva y estilística de tres casonas emblematicas by Daniel Málaga-Montoya, Fernando Cuzziramos-Gutiérrez, Tatiana Medina-Sánchez, Sergio Coll-Pla, Denis Leonardo Mayta-Ponce

“…Cerca de 500 edificios, en su mayoría de arquitectura doméstica -por lo que reciben el nombre genérico de “casonas”, presentan fachadas que pueden ser catalogadas dentro de los estilos neoclásico, neorrenacentista, ecléctico, neogótico, art decó y art Nouveau. De éstos, 240 cuentan con declaración como Patrimonio Cultural, lo que deja cerca del 50% de edificios desprotegidos y por tanto expuestos a mayores riesgos de ser abandonados, deteriorados o alterados con intervenciones que afecten su fábrica original. …”
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