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Article: THE MAN WHO MADE ART NOUVEAU
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 1987
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"ART NOUVEAU BING: PARIS STYLE 1900," an exhibition at
the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Design, New York City, through Oct. 11,
1987. Catalogue by Gabriel P. Weisberg (Harry N. Abrams
Inc., $22.50)
The "Bing" of this exhibition is both a person and an adjective,
the Siegfied Bing (1838-1905) without whom there would have been no
art nouveau. The New Art was what he said it was. It was what he
sold in his Paris shop, L'Art Nouveau. Only after the fact, did art
nouveau become the name for a style.
We all think we knew what constitutes Art Nouveau. A sort of
feverish look. The wavy line, which makes you think of ...