Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siecle France Politics, Psychology, and Style

Reviews

"Explores the highly complex patterns of political pressures, cultural and intellectual formations, and creative initiatives which underlie this period; it moves purposefully between medical and art history, via social or diplomatic or museum history, as the intricately interlocking arguments require."—Times Literary Supplement

"Ever so rarely a book appears that is destined to establish new parameters for intellectual discourse as it challenges and dissects old views through its interpretations. Art Nouveau inFin-de-Siecle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style by Debora Silverman is such a work. . . . Undoubtedly, this superb volume will become an essential text on turn-of-the-century art and its social implications."—Art Journal

"The sophisticated interdisciplinary nature of Silverman's work should make it of interest to political, social, intellectual, and feminist historians, not to mention art historians; but at the same time, it illustrates the very fluid boundaries separating these disciplines."—Nineteenth Century Studies

"A rich, fascinating, and detailed study. . . . The work is a courageous foray, an attempt at real cultural history in a field too often given over to mere gasps of admiration with little intellectual effort."—Art History