DANGEROUS CURVES.(various artists, art nouveau, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)

From: House Beautiful | Date: October 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

A century after it astonished the late Victorian world, Art Nouveau again spreads its glittering, erotic wings in an eye-opening show at the National Gallery

Whatever happened to Art Nouveau? A generation ago, at the height of the late-sixties counterculture, Art Nouveau was rediscovered by young admirers who saw something psychedelic in that sinuous turn-of-the-century style's naturalistically modeled but fantastically distorted forms. Rarely has an aesthetic revival so uncannily linked the rebellious sensibility of one period with that of a later one. When several of the ...

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