In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and The Aesthetic Movement
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli, 1986. Hardcover. Crimson cloth, cream & color illus. dust jacket, 511 pp. 94 color, 426 bw illus. G+/G (shelf & edge-wear to covers & corners. spot of dampstaining to cover w/ dampstaining to lower edge; does not affect interior. textblock detached from spine, though firm w/ pgs intact. front hinge lightly rattled. small, square adhesive sticker residue to cover endpaper. pgs lightly edge-toned; appear to be clean w/ instances of ink ghosting from opposing illustrations/pgs. dustjacket worn at edges & corners; spine stained; covers scuffed & scratched). Item #182110
ISBN: 9780847807680
A monumental exhibition catalogue. Essays written by: Roger B. Stein (Artifact as Ideology: The Aesthetic Movement in Its American Cultural Context); Catherine Lynn (Decorating Surfaces: Aesthetic Delight, Theoretical Dilemma) and (Surface Ornament: Wallpapers, Carpets, Textiles and Embroidery); Marilynn Johnson (The Artful Interior) and (Art Furniture: Wedding The Beautiful To The Useful); Alice C. Frelinghuysen (A New Renaissance: Stained Glass In The Aesthetic Movement) and (Aesthetic Forms in Ceramics and Glass); David A. Hanks (Metalwork: An Eclectic Aesthetic); Doreen Bolger Burke (Painters and Sculptors in A Decorative Age); James D. Kornwolf (American Architecture and The Aesthetic Movement) and Jonathan Freedman (An Aestheticism of Our Own: American Writers and The Aestetic Movement). Following this essay, there is a tremendous Dictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists and Manufacturers associated with the Aesthetic Movement, compiled under the leadership of Catherine Hoover Voorsanger.
OCLC: 973588284
Price: $35.00