ART NOUVEAU (ENG)

How was Art Nouveau nouveau? This richly illustrated overview explores the contexts and provocations of this vivid turn-of-the-centu ry style, in which a symphony of flowing lines and organic forms advocated not only a new linear freedom and liberation from artisti c tradition but also a return to handcraftsmanship and the synthesis of artistic media and practices into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or tota l work of art, and a recoil from industrialization.