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Rococo : the continuing curve, 1730-2008
- Title
- Rococo : the continuing curve, 1730-2008 / Sarah D. Coffin ... [et al.].
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum : Distributed by Assouline Pub., 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 263 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
- Summary
- From the publisher: Book accompanies a major exhibition opening March 2008 at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. This groundbreaking work explores the sensuous and organic rococo style and its many revivals. More than 300 lavish full-color illustrations chart the progress of the style through the centuries.
- Alternative Title
- Continuing curve, 1730-2008
- Subjects
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, Mar. 7-July 6, 2008.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Paul Warwick Thompson -- Continuing curve / Penelope Hunter-Stiebel -- Rococo redux: from the style moderne of the eighteenth century to art nouveau / Melissa Lee Hyde -- Juste-Aurele Meissonnier and his patrons / Peter Fuhring -- Ornament of bizarre imagination: rococo prints and drawings from Cooper-Hewitt's Leon Decloux collection / Gail S Davidson -- Louis XV style / Penelope Hunter-Stiebel -- Eighteenth-century Nancy: the good king and the blacksmith / Penelope Hunter-Stiebel -- Radiating rococo: the dissemination of style through migrating designers, craftsmen, and objects in the eighteenth century / Sarah D Coffin -- German rococo: from Cuvillies in Munich to Nahl in Potsdam / Ulrich Leben -- Rococo in Holland: the assimilation of a foreign style / Reinier Baarsen -- Emulation and subversion: nineteenth-century rococo revivals in the graphic arts / Gail S Davidson -- Rococo revival in English and American nineteenth-century silver / Sarah D Coffin -- Equal to any in the world: rococo-revival furniture in America / Jason Busch -- Art nouveau / Penelope Hunter-Stiebel -- Modern curve: form, structure, and image in the twentieth century and beyond / Ellen Lupton -- Endnotes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic credits -- Selected index of names.
- Call Number
- NK1165
- ISBN
- 9780910503921
- 0910503923
- 9780910503914 (pbk.)
- 0910503915 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 213488585
- Title
- Rococo : the continuing curve, 1730-2008 / Sarah D. Coffin ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum : Distributed by Assouline Pub., 2008.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index.
- Added Author
- Coffin, Sarah.Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
- Research Call Number
- *R-ART NK1165 .A9 2008