Oh, if only we could walk through ebony peacock gates and enter florally decorated, elegant high-rise palaces
7/23/2012
Where everything centers on being youthful today what is our attitude to Art Nouveau? Is it as young and new as the name claims and as Adorno admonished nothing but “puberty declared as a permanent state”? Has it become a dream world far removed from our box culture? Or is it making a cinematic return?