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The cult of beauty : the Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900
- Title
- The cult of beauty : the Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900 / edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway ; assisted by Esm Whittaker.
- Publication
- London : V&A Publishing ; San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2011.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 12-1284 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 296 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Victorian avant-garde1860-1900.
- Subjects
- Note
- This edition published to accompany the exhibition held 18 Feb. - 17 June 2012 at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco having previously been held 2 Apr. - 17 Jul. 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and 12 Sept. 2011 - 15 Jan. 2012 at the Muse d'Orsay, Paris.
- Maroon cloth case binding; illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260) and index.
- Contents
- The search for a new beauty / Stephen Calloway -- The cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde in context / Lynn Frederick Orr -- 1. Literature and the Aesthetic movement / Susan Owens -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) / Colin Cruise -- 2. Aestheticism in painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Early aesthetic photography: Julia Margaret Cameron and David Wilkie Wynfield / Hope Kingsley -- The Musical ideal in asethetic art / Suzanne Fagence Cooper -- 3. The palace of art: artists, collectors and their houses / Stephen Calloway -- Japonisme / Christine M.E. Guth -- Blue-and-white china / Stephen Calloway -- Leighton and Aitchison / Esm Whittaker -- The Aesthetic movement and architecture / Stefan Muthesius -- 4. Furnishing the aesthetic interior: manuals and theories / Penny Sparke -- Wallpapers / Gill Saunders -- Aesthetic textiles / Sonia Ashmore -- Art and utility: furniture fit for purpose / Frances Collard -- Ceramics / Sonia Solicari -- Aesthetic metalwork / Eric Turner -- 5. The Grosvenor gallery, patronage and the aesthetic portrait / Barbara Bryant -- The "Aesthetic" woman / Margaret D. Stetz -- Artists' frames / Lynn Roberts -- Much in little space: Whistler's white and yellow exhibition as an Aesthetic movement bell-wether / David Park Curry -- 6. Aestheticism in the marketplace: fashion, lifestyle and popular taste / Christopher Breward -- Women's dress / Edwina Ehrman -- Jewellery / Clare Phillips -- Punch and satire / Leonce Ormond -- Oscar Wilde / Susan Owens -- Patience and the theatre / Catherine Haill -- "Tired hedonists": the decadence of the Aesthetic movement / Stephen Calloway -- Religion and sexuality / Colin Cruise -- Late paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- The new sculpture / Robert Upstone -- "The cult of indistinctness": art photography in the 1890s / Hope Kingsley -- The book beautiful / Stephen Calloway.
- Call Number
- JQF 12-1284.
- ISBN
- 9781851776948 (hbk.)
- 185177694X (hbk.)
- 9781851776955 (pbk.)
- 1851776958 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011935133
- OCLC
- 774992707
- Title
- The cult of beauty : the Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900 / edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway ; assisted by Esm Whittaker.
- Imprint
- London : V&A Publishing ; San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New York : Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2011.
- Edition
- [U.S. edition].
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260) and index.
- Added Author
- Calloway, Stephen.Orr, Lynn Federle, 1947-Whittaker, Esm̌Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)Victoria and Albert Museum.Muse d'Orsay.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 12-1284.JQF 12-1284