This page collates highlights from the conference. If you have any memories, photographs or content that you would like to share please send them directly to jenna.aomo@gmail.com
New Total Arts for Sustainable Futures Theme
Total art (art totale or Gesamtkunstwerk) has enjoyed canonical status in aesthetic theory since the late 20th century. For sustainable futures, two movements of Total Art are springboards for the conference: Art Nouveau and Art Déco.
Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and design with Nancy as one of its capitals. Art Nouveau was a reaction against academic art, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decoration. The revolutionary approach was to break down the traditional distinction between arts, architecture and design, and develop a holistic understanding on the search for Total Art. Art Nouveau was inspired by natural forms, dynamism, asymmetry, and the use of modern materials, therefore synergistically combining art, nature and technology. Its political purpose was to address anyone and escaping the elitist audiences, issuing series production rather than unique originals, incorporating the industrial techniques into the art world, creating total environments and atmospheres. Art Déco was the main successor of Art Nouveau from 1910s onwards, first in France, later on international. Art Déco experimented with the genres of design, painting, furniture, architecture, and building within its stylistic realm characterized by vivid colours and daring geometry that led to extremely luxurious and detailed artworks. The urban expansion of the time spread this new fashion in Nancy. The former members of the Ecole de Nancy like Antonin Daum, Jacques Gruber, Louis Majorelle or Victor Prouvé were still present and developed their aesthetic further. Nancy remains a leading artistic capital during the 1920s and 1930s and still is a city with a lively art and cultural scene.
In a nutshell, New Total Arts for Sustainable Futures in Nancy means …
- Let’s break down our traditional distinctions of disciplines!
- Let’s incorporate art into every management and organizational process!
- Let’s turn organizations into New Total Arts!
- Let’s develop our “New Total Arts” for Sustainable Futures!
The Art of Management & Organization 2024 wants to revisit Art Nouveau and Art Déco to inspire participants before the conference to develop their New Total Arts contributions and during the conference to create new connections.
AoMO2024 is brought to you in association with:
What Total Arts means to me?
Espoir Stream Memories
The Art of Management & Organization 