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Article: Not only nouveau but also vieux: David Platzer applauds the Royal Museums in Brussels for placing art nouveau in context in its ambitious survey of Belgian decorative arts.(Exhibitions)(Book Review)
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- November 1, 2005
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The title of this exhibition at first appears as a misnomer. Art nouveau is only one dish on the menu of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Belgian decorative arts styles covered, and not the whole meal. Specimens by such exponents of that short-lived but influential style as Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, and Henry van de Velde play key parts in the exhibition, but so too does work from earlier and later schools.
The exhibition's aim, however, as Anne Cahen-Delhaye, the Royal Museum of Art and History's chief curator, explains in her catalogue preface, is to present art nouveau in the context of what came before and after, including the twentieth-century design ...
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