With its fluid organic forms and its devotion to beauty in design,
art nouveau has enjoyed great popularity, both at its inception and
during the modern resurgence of interest and enthusiasm. Alastair
Duncan tells the story of its meteoric rise from its origins as a
reaction by young artists and designers to the traditionalism and
revivalism of the mid-19th-century fine and decorative arts. The
new art first made itself felt around 1895, in architecture,
furniture, glass, ceramics and the other applied arts, and fell
into eclipse after World War I, until its rediscovery in the 1960s.
The author recounts the history of this important and influential
movement in detail, introducing the main personalities - Galle,
Lalique, Tiffany and others - and relating their aims and
accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
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