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About the book >.>.> The extravagant elegance of the fin-de-si?cle left its most durable legacy in the field of the applied arts and the name of Emile Gall? ranks with those of Mucha Lalique de Feure and Guimard among the men who combined an artistic vision of the highest order with the exacting and centuries old standards of Euro- pean craftsmanship. Of the two centres of Art Nouveau in France Paris and Nancy it was Galle’s devotion to the artistic heritage of the craft guilds which created the Nancy school. Philippe Garner’s perceptive and sympathetic analysis the first full scale study to appear in English not only places Gall? within the context of Art Nouveau but so examines his involve- ment with the Symbolist poets the literary significance which this imparted to his work and the manner in which he captured in sculp- tural form the whole spirit of turn of the century Europe. Gall?’s mastery of richly trans- luscent colours and elegant tracery of curving lines is nowhere more obvious than in his glass- work the vases bowls and lighting fixtures in exquisite shades of lilac pink and orange which established Gall? and his workshops as the foremost glass producers of the period. These same qualities of linear grace and tonal subtlety penetrated all of Call?’s work from the deeply tinted furniture carved in exotic wood to his decorative and exhuberant pieces in faience. Emile Galle’s position as one of the most pro- vocative and multi-faceted talents in Europe at the turn of the century is here confirmed by the richness and variety of his oeuvre in all media. the distillation of an artistic vision which im- presses primarily by its nuances and its delicacy. (MP)