ART NOUVEAU IN FRANCE

Art Nouveau in Fin de siècle France explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau. At the beginning of the  1890s  in Nancy and Paris, Art nouveau in France developed, Painters, sculptors, architects, craftsmen and industrialists came together under the banner "Art for all and Art everywhere". Art began to take the form of living things. Water imagery produced canvas, ceramics and glass, plants provided lamps, fireplaces, tables and beds. Winner of the 1990 Berkshire Conference Book Award. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New.