בידספיריט | Art Nouveau by Robert SCHMUTZLER.

Art Nouveau by Robert SCHMUTZLER. Thames and Hudson, Londres, 1978 - First British edition *(abridged from the 1962 first edition), 1978. Laminated illustrated wrappers, folio, 224 pp, profusely illustrated (a few in colour). From the blurb: ”This important pioneering study of Art Nouveau, carefully revised and abridged from the original hardcover edition, traces the origins of the movement back to the eighteenth century. Dr Schmutzler corrects the notion that Art Nouveau was an artificially staged development, and shows that it was one of the few all-embracing movements in the history of art, encompassing the graphic arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and objects for everyday use. He considers all these manifestations of Art Nouveau - cultivated by artists and architects in centres as diverse as Chicago and Glasgow, Vienna and Brussels, Barcelona and Paris - with many excellently chosen illustrations. Art Nouveau was nourished by contradictions; this book discloses the inner unity that lay beneath them.”