Essential Art Nouveau

This attractive book highlights the key elements of Art Nouveau, a ground-breaking style which swept across Europe and America at the turn of the century and became a major influence on all art forms.The approach of a new century provokes new thinking and new technologies, and the artists and designers of a hundred years ago played a key role in shaping a changing world. Challenging the old order with daring flamboyance, their wild and wonderful designs began to appear everywhere - not only on buildings, in paintings and in sculpture, but right through to chairs, cutlery, glassware, ceramics, jewellery and textiles.Essential Art Nouveau features thematic sections and a wonderful selection of images - some are well-known while others are previously unpublished - to provide the reader with the very essence of this extraordinary style.

Author: Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher: V & A Publications
Extra Details: Hardback + Jacket 8 x 9 inches tall, lavishly illustrated with Colour photos throughout