| Edition |
[U.S. edition]. |
| Description |
296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| 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 Musée d'Orsay, Paris. |
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Illustrated endpapers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index. |
| Contents |
The search for a new beauty / Stephen Calloway -- The cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde in context / Lynn Federle 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 / Esmé 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. |
| Subject |
Aesthetic movement (Art) -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
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Art, English -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Calloway, Stephen.
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Orr, Lynn Federle, 1947-
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Whittaker, Esmé.
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Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Musée d'Orsay.
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| Added Title |
Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900 |
| ISBN |
9781851776948 hardback |
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185177694X hardback |
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9781851776290 paperback |
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185177629X paperback |
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9781851776955 paperback |
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1851776958 paperback |
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