cover image Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Debora L. Silverman. University of California Press, $37.95 (450pp) ISBN 978-0-520-08088-1

Silverman argues that the term Art Nouveau changed meaning in the last decade of the 19th century, as French esthetics shifted away from iron-and-glass architecture and toward interior domesticity. Illustrations. (Oct.)