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Mackintosh's Masterwork

Name: Mackintosh's Masterwork
Author: William Buchanan
ISBN: 9780813534459

by William Buchanan

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Overview

Of the many practitioners of art nouveau in Great Britain, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) has outlasted them all. His work bridged the more ornate style of the later nineteenth century and the forms of international modernism that followed. Like Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he is frequently compared, Mackintosh is known for so thoroughly integrating art and decoration that the two became inseparable. His work has been honored by a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his designs have proliferated to such an extent that they can be found reproduced in posters, prints, jewelry, and even new buildings. His most important project was the Glasgow School of Art, which still functions as a highly prestigious art school. This glorious building is visited each year by thousands of tourists from around the world. Built over a dozen years, beginning in 1897, the Glasgow School of Art is Mackintosh's greatest and most influential legacy.

This completely redesigned and lavishly illustrated edition of Mackintosh's Masterwork has been greatly expanded and contains newly discovered material about both the early life of the architect and the formative years in which his plans for the School of Art were executed.

William Buchanan, former art director of the Scottish Arts Council, has been connected with the Glasgow School of Art for much of his life. Having studied there in his youth, he later returned as head of Fine Art Studies and became deputy director. He has published widely on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, with a special interest in Japanese influences on his work.