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ISBN: | 9781780427904 1780427905 9781844845200 9781859956731 1859956734
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index. Translation of L'art nouveau: son histoire, l'art nouveau étranger a l'exposition, l'art nouveau au point de vue social. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | Art Nouveau designates a decorative and architectural style developed in the 1880s and 1890s in the West. Born in reaction to the Industrial Revolution and to the creative vacuum it left behind, Art Nouveau was at the heart of a "renaissance" in the decorative arts. The primary objective of the movement was the creation of a new aesthetic of nature through a return to the study of natural subjects. In order to achieve this, such artists as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Antoni Gaudí, Jan Toorop, and William Morris favoured innovation in technique and novelty of forms. After its triumph at the Par.
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Other form: | Print version: Lahor, Jean, 1840-1909. Art nouveau. English. Art nouveau. New York : Parkstone International, 2007 9781844845200
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