{"title":"The Skin of a Line: Surface Conditions in the Ceramic Skin of Art Nouveau","authors":"Arielle Marshall","doi":"10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper develops a material history of Art Nouveau with reference to the ceram ic façade of André Arfvidson’s block of artists’ studios at 31 rue Campagne-Première, Paris (1911). Tracking the constituent element of this façade (glazed tile), this paper narrativizes the exchanges between four contexts – industry, craft, architecture and art – that underscored the rise and fall of Art Nouveau in fin-de-siècle France. References are drawn widely from art and archaeology; treating materials as sources of knowledge, complicit in the processes of architectural history. Exploring the idea of Art Nouveau as a transitory movement, this paper fosters a novel reading of the ceramic skin of 31 rue Campagne-Première in material terms.","PeriodicalId":42146,"journal":{"name":"Architecture and Culture","volume":"9 1","pages":"690 - 715"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Architecture and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2021.1919855","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract This paper develops a material history of Art Nouveau with reference to the ceram ic façade of André Arfvidson’s block of artists’ studios at 31 rue Campagne-Première, Paris (1911). Tracking the constituent element of this façade (glazed tile), this paper narrativizes the exchanges between four contexts – industry, craft, architecture and art – that underscored the rise and fall of Art Nouveau in fin-de-siècle France. References are drawn widely from art and archaeology; treating materials as sources of knowledge, complicit in the processes of architectural history. Exploring the idea of Art Nouveau as a transitory movement, this paper fosters a novel reading of the ceramic skin of 31 rue Campagne-Première in material terms.
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Architecture and Culture, the international award winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is understood extensively, as shared experience of everyday life, or in terms of the rules and habits of different disciplinary practices, Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with it – and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed. Architecture and Culture publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative, rigorously speculative, visually and verbally stimulating. From architects, artists and urban designers, film-makers, animators and poets, from historians of culture and architecture, from geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, from thinkers and writers of all kinds, established and new, it solicits essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation between all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do.