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In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement

Door Doreen Bolger - and others Burke

Categorie	Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer	#377168-KC29
Titel	In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement
Auteur	Burke, Doreen Bolger - and others
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Rizzoli International Publications
Jaar van uitgave	1986
ISBN10	0847807681
ISBN13	9780847807680
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting	"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, alt... (Lees verder)hough 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.
Pagina's	511
Conditie	Goed — Name on first free endpaper.
Prijs	€ 25,00

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