The Art of Life

by Anikó Katona

ISBN: 9786156595713

Published: 2025-07-24

The Art of Life presents the first golden age of Hungarian poster art, in an international context, which developed at the turn of the 20th Century in the Art Nouveau style, including works by great artists of the genre Mucha, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Moser and others. They are joined by iconic works by well-known Hungarian artists, including Faragó, Biró, Helbing, Tuszkay and works by artists who have been undeservedly forgotten. The Art of Life offers insight into Art Nouveau posters, and other graphic design work, along with objects of applied art and architecture which also play a role. The posters advertise a wide variety of phenomena, newspapers, theatres, cabarets, amusement parlours and commercial products, etc., thus recalling the era in which they were created. The Art of Life reveals the world of bourgeois homes, urban nightlife at the turn of the century, the atmosphere of cafés, the dress and habits of urban women, the leisure activities popular at the turn of the...