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Article: ART NOUVEAU 1890-1914.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
- Author:
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Imagine yourself as a designer working in an age before modernism, or before any real idea of what it might be existed. Imagine then that you are asked to create objects that should look modern and represent the modern world. What would you make? Where would you get your ideas? What materials would you use? The designers and artists associated with the art nouveau style were in exactly this position in that they set themselves the task of creating a modern style. Their reasoning followed the romantic logic of the leading French critic Gabriel Mourey (1865-1943) in 1902:
This change is taking place. Here and there, in every country, men with willing minds are ...
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