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Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> The extravagant elegance of the fin-de-si?cle left its most durable legacy in the field of the applied arts, and the name of Emile Gall? ranks with those of Mucha, Lalique, de Feure and Guimard among the men who combined an artistic vision of the highest order with the exacting and centuries old standards of Euro- pean craftsmanship. Of the two centres of Art Nouveau in France, Paris and Nancy, it was Gall?'s devotion to the artistic heritage of the craft guilds which created the Nancy school. Philippe Garner's perceptive and sympathetic analysis, the first full scale study to appear in English, not only places Gall? within the context of Art Nouveau but also examines his involve- ment with the Symbolist poets, the literary significance which this imparted to his work and the manner in which he captured, in sculp- tural form, the whole spirit of turn of the century Europe. Gall?'s mastery of richly trans- luscent colours and elegant tracery of curving lines is nowhere more obvious than in his glass- work, th.