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Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France

Politics, Psychology, and Style
Debora L. Silverman
Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book AwardArt Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, intellectual and artistic factors, specific to late 19th century France, that interacted in the development of art nouveau.


Winner, 1990 Berkshire Conference Book AwardArt Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style explores the shift in the locus of modernity from technological monument to private interior. It examines the political, economic, social, int
Debora L. Silverman is Distinguished Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Modern European History, Art and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. 
"Debora Silverman has produced a work of great originality, weaving the seemingly disparate strands of French Republican politics, the New Psychology, and the vanguard stule of the fin de siecle into a coherent but complex and multilayered intellectual tonality . . . Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France represents the new cultural history at its invigorating and provocative best."—Linda Nochlin, Yale University