Dialogue of Art Nouveau: Russia and Italy

Art Nouveau is a short but vivid period in the history of the arts. Instantly recognizable, contemporary to the century, the style of the Belle Époque. Art Nouveau was everywhere and its interpretation revealed the national characteristics of the culture... that embraced it. Incredibly popular among contemporaries and fiercely condemned by the next generation. A style that still provokes debates about what it was – a universal fascination with line and the celebration of life or still the foundation of the twentieth-century culture? In this book, along with the reader, the author invites you to engage in a dialogue with this era, choosing the Russian and Italian versions of the Art Nouveau style as the main characters. To find the code that opens the door to the world of the past, in order to better understand the present.