Congress
Strand 1. Breaking the Art Nouveau Glass Ceiling: The Women of Art Nouveau
Historiography has condemned women artists of the Art Nouveau style to a double oblivion: once for being artists of Art Nouveau, a style that was not valued for decades, and once again for being women. And, if it is true that society in the Art Nouveau period was strongly gender-biased, not offering an equal environment in which women could succeed in the traditionally “male” sphere of the fine arts, it is no less true that our society today does not share such views and that research and communication in twenty-first-century History of Art has a certain duty to compensate this.
Keynote speech by Judith Rohrer
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Here you may download each of the papers and the respective abstracts. Papers listed by alphabetical order of their authors. Abstracts include brief CV of the author and all have a version in English; full papers are in the language they were submitted in.
An Unexpected Wonder: the Art Nouveau Winter Garden of the Ursuline Institute in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver (Belgium)
Mario Baeck
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Ester Barón Borràs
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Alison Brown
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Magdalena Długosz
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David A. Hill
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Joan-Miquel Llodrà Nogueras
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Laura La Lueta Romero / Laura Mercader Amigó
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Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
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Marikit Taylor
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Art Nouveau artists explored the representation of femininity to an extent that had not occurred before in the history of art. From the stretching of the limits of erotic aesthetics to the creation of fantastic metamorphic feminine creatures, the interpretation of the female condition was central to expressions of the diverse Art Nouveau movements across Europe.
Keynote speech by Elizabeth K. Mix
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Intersections between Theatre and Haute Couture: The Status of the Actress as a Fashion Icon in the Belle Époque
Núria Aragonès
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Clara Beltrán Catalán / Núria Gil Farré
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Pere Capellà-Simó
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Fàtima López Pérez
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Pau Medrano Bigas
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Marta Saliné i Perich
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The growing popularity of Art Nouveau in the last decades has made it possible for both specialists and, to a certain extent, the general public, to discover previously little-known Art Nouveau heritage in cities and regions across Europe and the world. But the true extent of the Art Nouveau creative explosion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries still has to be fully assessed, and new discoveries are seeing the light periodically.
Keynote speech by Teresa-M. Sala
Download the full textClosing Conference by Valérie Thomas
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Art Nouveau in Rosario, Argentina: Diversity in a New City
Florencia Barcina
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M. Beatrice Bettazzi
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Paolo Cornaglia / Rosa Tamborrino
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Montserrat Gali Boadella
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Karin Hallas-Murula
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Rosalva Loreto López
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Adela Ramona Novicov
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Zuzana Ragulová
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Pablo Sánchez Izquierdo
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Jos Vandenbreeden
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The selection of papers within this strand favoured presentations by researchers and research groups whose on-going projects could stimulate a discussion in which both young postgraduate students who were working on their doctoral theses and more experienced researchers in the field of Art Nouveau could share their analyses and opinions.
Keynote speech by Pamela Robertson
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Sarah Bernhardt and the introduction of Art Nouveau into Theatre
Barbara Bessac
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Tamás Csáki
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M. Assumpta Dangla Ramon
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Alberto Darias / Jonás Armas
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M. Isabel Gascón Uceda
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Ignacio Matoses Ortells
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Irene Muñoz Pairet
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Judith Urbano / Guillem Carabí / Fàtima López
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Julio Vives Chillida
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Lilla Zámbó
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