Excerpt from the film MR. BING & L'ART NOUVEAU, a Facets Video release. Directed by Francoise Levie. For more info or to order this film, visit http://www.facetsdvd.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DV76919 or contact sales@facets.org. Facets Multi-Media is a non-profit media arts organization founded in Chicago in 1975, and dedicated to making cinema accessible to all through film preservation, distribution, presentation, and education. For more information, visit http://www.facets.org Award-winning documentarian Francoise Levie specializes in biographies of unique individuals and Siegfried Bing is no exception. Bing was the inspiration and force behind the art movement known as art nouveau, promoting artists as diverse and talented as Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec. Levie shows how Bing put his personal stamp on the late 19th century art world by exposing Europe to Asian arts, promoting decorative arts, and handling the work of key artist

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