PARIS — Through his early and spectacular success as the preeminent Art Nouveau graphic artist, a psychic burden was foisted upon the Bohemian artist Alphonse Mucha. The tragic double-edged sword of ...

It was ‘the DNA of modern life’. Cath Pound explores what an extraordinary international design movement tells us about the world. Art Nouveau was the first self-consciously international modern art ...

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Accompanying a show at The Met, The Art of the Literary Poster examines the commercial, artistic, and political dimensions of the late-19th-century form. Victor Horta, like many architects at the turn ...