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Article: 1900 a la Mode.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Judging from the stately exhibition "1900," shown last spring in Paris, the citizens of the Western world fairly glided from the 19th century into the 20th, rather like the couples departing Cythera in Watteau's lovely idyll: with unfailing grace, rare fashion and more than a soupcon of nostalgia for what was being left behind. Assembled by a team of curators from various departments of the Musee d'Orsay, "1900" showcased architecture, design and photography as well as painting and sculpture, the exclusive concerns of the contemporaneous London-New York show called "1900: Art at the Crossroads." Where the latter exhibition boasts a subtitle which points to a moment of ...
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