The primitive ornament in Henry Van de Velde's design : Relations among thought, artistic movement, and discourses on "savage people" in fin-de-siecle Belgium

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  • ヴァン・デ・ヴェルデの装飾デザインにおける原始性志向 : 世紀末ベルギーの文芸思潮と「未開民族」に関する言説から
  • ヴァン デ ヴェルデ ノ ソウショク デザイン ニオケル ゲンシセイ シコウ セイキマツ ベルギー ノ ブンゲイ シチョウ ト ミカイ ミンゾク ニ カンスル ゲンセツ カラ

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In the industrial arts revival movement around the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe, Belgium was remarkable for its pioneering style of decoration based on the functionality and abstract form of the product. Through this study, I aim to clarify the factors that produced such modernism. I examine the case of Henry Van de Velde, a Belgian designer and theorist who shifted from creating fine art pictures to industrial art. He proposed a “New Art” in Belgium. His theory and creation have been reviewed by recent studies from the perspective of the influence of non-occidental cultures such as those of the Javanese, Congolese, and Japanese. I will point out the possibility that the Oceanian tribe culture could be included among these sources for the examination of Van de Velde's concept of "primitive” art. I will rely on an example of his work, the context of the avant-garde circle; Les XX, and the cosmopolitan magazine La Société Nouvelle that led the movement of the younger generation in Belgium. I argue that the tendency to set the “savage people” aside from the masses against the corruption and capitalism in Europe and the praises for tribal art relate to Van de Velde's theory and the application of his abstract design.

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  • 人文研究

    人文研究 70 43-69, 2019-03

    大阪市立大学大学院文学研究科

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