Strand 1. The Filmed City: Art Nouveau and Cinema

This strand aimed to look into new perspectives on Art Nouveau heritage of cities by means of cinematographic language, given the coincidence in the time of the birth of both.

Papers relating the city with footage from the age of birth and apogee of Art Nouveau, as well as other later filmed material related to this artistic movement, were selected.

Communications could address representation systems from the official or amateur point of view, analysing them on their own or compared with other cities, and also the possibilities of reconstituting what has been preserved, lost or forgotten.

List of Papers Presented in this Strand

Here you can download the papers with the respective abstracts and brief CV of the author. Papers are listed in alphabetical order of the author’s surname. All abstracts have a version in English, but full papers are each in the language in which they were submitted.

Strand 2. Art Nouveau and Politics in the Dawn of Globalisation

The relationship between art in general and politics has been well established in modern historiography, and interpreted by diverse theories and outlooks. The peculiarities of the times in which Art Nouveau was born and flourished, roughly from the 1890’s to 1914, calls for a specific look on this relationship. Industrialisation, improved communications and technological advances in general transformed the economic, social and cultural context. With this, political ambitions and developments also evolved, characterised by the apparition of new social and revolutionary movements and a renewed upsurge of nationalism and colonialism.

Papers analysing the relationship of Art Nouveau works and artists with politics, and in particular with colonialism, were welcomed to this strand.

List of Papers Presented in this Strand

Here you can download the papers with the respective abstracts and brief CV of the author. Papers are listed in alphabetical order of the author’s surname. All abstracts have a version in English, but full papers are each in the language in which they were submitted.

Strand 3. Les Fleurs du Mal: Style in a Troubled Age

By the end of the 19th century, social crisis brings with it a series of behaviours and phenomena that upset the human psyche. Diverse illnesses, neuroses, paroxysms and altered states of conscience are among the symptoms of a perceived sickness of mind and body. Fascination for hypnosis, drugs and other therapeutic attempts to cure ailments such as female hysteria – then seen as an illness – are related to the sexual and gender prejudice of a patriarchal society. In this context, Eros and Thanatos are seen as a bipolar tension, in which the forces of life and death, sex and destruction are present in a particular iconography of fin-de-siècle eroticism.

List of Papers Presented in this Strand

Here you can download the papers with the respective abstracts and brief CV of the author. Papers are listed in alphabetical order of the author’s surname. All abstracts have a version in English, but full papers are each in the language in which they were submitted.

Strand 4. Research and Doctoral Thesis in Progress

The selection of papers within this strand favoured presentations by researchers and research groups whose on-going projects may stimulate a discussion in which both young postgraduate students who are working on their doctoral theses and more experienced researchers in the field of Art Nouveau can share their analyses and opinions

List of Papers Presented in this Strand

Here you can download the papers with the respective abstracts and brief CV of the author. Papers are listed in alphabetical order of the author’s surname. All abstracts have a version in English, but full papers are each in the language in which they were submitted.