Schmutzler, Robert — Art Nouveau

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1962. First Edition Thus . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, as brilliant a 62-years-old copy as one can find, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the bright and shiny, glossy wraps, in gate-fold. 322 pp., a big, thick, authoritative monograph on this important art movement and with 451 illustrations, all in, with 12 tipped-in color plates, too. From the publisher's blurb: "This important pioneering study of Art Nouveau, carefully revised and abridged from the original hardcover edition, traces the origins of the movement back to the eighteenth century. Dr Schmutzler corrects the notion that Art Nouveau was an artificially staged development, and shows that it was one of the few all-embracing movements in the history of art, encompassing the graphic arts, painting, sculpture, architecture and objects for everyday use. He considers all these manifestations of Art Nouveau - cultivated by artists and architects in centres as diverse as Chicago and Glasgow, Vienna and Brussels, Barcelona and Paris - with many excellently chosen illustrations. Art Nouveau was nourished by contradictions; this book discloses the inner unity that lay beneath them."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New