In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli, 1986. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with illustrated jacket. 511 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. VG. Some light shelfwear and signs of aging. Otherwise a nice copy. Item #215331
ISBN: 9780847807680
"This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.
OCLC: 13820767
Price: $30.00