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The Peacock Room comes to America
- Title
- The Peacock Room comes to America / Lee Glazer.
- Author
- Freer Gallery of Art, author.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, [2023]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 24-456 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Glazer, Lee (Lee Stephens)
- Description
- 61 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- "The Peacock Room Comes to America details the unique history of a dining room so masterfully decorated, it crossed oceans to become an art collector's piece. The room is a study in opulence, offering a 360-degree show-stopping view. This book features splendid illustrations and close-up shots of the room's most intricate details, from its gilded walnut latticework to the Tudor-style ceiling painted with a lush pattern of peacock feathers. The paneled room is painted in rich blue-green colors with white-over glazing and metallic gold leaf and distinctive incorporations of the peacock motif. While renowned for its beauty, the room is also famous for the story of its making, marked by betrayal and feuding, embodied by a mural of fighting peacocks painted in secret by artist James McNeill Whistler after he'd been fired from the project. The room is considered one of the best surviving aesthetic interiors of the Anglo-Japanese style and displays more than 250 stunning ceramics from across Asia ranging from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century. The Peacock Room Comes to America introduces readers to these distinctive pottery pieces with historical and artistic context"--
- Subject
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919 > Aesthetics > Exhibitions
- Freer, Charles Lang, 1854-1919
- Freer Gallery of Art > Exhibitions
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Peacock Room > Exhibitions
- Art, Asian > Collectors and collecting > United States > Exhibitions
- Art > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
- Aesthetics
- Art
- Peacock Room
- Collectors and collecting
- Art, Asian
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Call Number
- JQF 24-456
- ISBN
- 9781588347534
- 1588347532
- LCCN
- 2023009666
- OCLC
- 1371014477
- Author
- Freer Gallery of Art, author.
- Title
- The Peacock Room comes to America / Lee Glazer.
- Publisher
- Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Glazer, Lee (Lee Stephens), author.
- Other Editions:
- Reproduction of (manifestation): Freer Gallery of Art. Peacock Room comes to America Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, [2012] 61 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm (DLC) 2012008047
- Research Call Number
- JQF 24-456