This book on the famous artistic movement at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century is interesting. It is well documented, with a good balance between text and illustration. It contains beautiful photos and recent period, in color and black-and-white, about architecture, furnishings and objects. The author is German is heavily Germanic cities with 90 pages devoted to them, while France is entitled to only eight pages on the Nancy School ... For ten euros book is a very good value for money, since it is a 24x30cm format that includes 240 pages of fine print with a hard cover.
Warning, this book is available in several languages, choose the right!
The content is as follows:
"MOVEMENT The first steps of modernity", introduction to Art Nouveau, in about twenty pages.
"ADO, Rise of the provinces" - Brussels (24 pages) - Nancy (8 pages) - Barcelona (8 pages) - Munich (40 pages) - Weimar (20 pages) - Darmstadt (30 pages) - Glasgow (16 pages) - Helsinki (8 pages) - Chicago (10 pages)
The overview ends with a chapter in Vienna: "BALANCE, Vienna: initiation into modernity."
