Title & Author:

In pursuit of beauty : Americans and the Aesthetic movement / Doreen Bolger Burke, Jonathan Freedman, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, David A. Hanks, Marilynn Johnson, James D. Kornwolf, Catherine Lynn, Roger B. Stein, Jennifer Toher, and Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, with the assistance of Carrie Rebora.

Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Rizzoli, [1986]
©1986

Description:

511 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with a major loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 23, 1986 to January 11, 1987.
Published to coincide with a major loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 1986 to Jan. 11, 1987.
Project director, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen.
Research supervisor, Catherine Hoover Voorsanger.
Includes index.
Library copy: author's autographed presentation copy to Phyllis Lambert.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-502) and index.
Artifact as ideology : the aesthetic movement in its American cultural context / Roger B. Stein -- Decorating surfaces : aesthetic delight, theoretical dilemma / Catherine Lynn -- Surface ornament: wallpapers, carpets, textiles and embroidery / Catherine Lynn -- The artful interior / Marilynn Johnson -- Art furniture : wedding the beautiful to the useful / Marilynn Johnson -- A new Renaissance : stained glass in the aesthetic period / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Aesthetic forms in ceramics and glass / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Metalwork : an eclectic aesthetic / David A. Hanks with Jennifer Toher -- Painters and sculptors in a decorative age / Doreen Bolger Burke -- American architecture and the aesthetic movement / James D. Kornwolf -- An aestheticism of our own : American writers and the aesthetic movement / Jonathan Freedman -- Dictionary of architects, artisans, artists, and manufacturers / Catherine Hoover Voorsanger.
Also available online.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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.

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ISBN:

0870994670
9780870994678
0870994689 (pbk.)
9780870994685 (pbk.)
0847807681 (Rizzoli)
9780847807680 (Rizzoli)

Subject:

Aesthetic movement (Art) United States Exhibitions.
Aesthetic movement (Art) United States Influence Exhibitions.
Decoration and ornament United States 19th century Exhibitions.
Art, American 19th century Exhibitions.
Eclecticism in art United States Exhibitions.
Arts and crafts movement United States Exhibitions.
Art, American Exhibitions.
AESTHETIC MOVEMENT (ART) INFLUENCE EXHIBITIONS.
ART, AMERICAN 19TH CENTURY EXHIBITIONS.
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT UNITED STATES EXHIBITIONS.
ECLECTICISM IN ART UNITED STATES EXHIBITIONS.
Art américain Expositions.
Éclectisme dans l'art États-Unis Expositions.
Esthétisme (Art britannique) Influence Expositions.
Arts and crafts movement États-Unis Expositions.
Art États-Unis 19e siècle Expositions.
Esthétisme (Art) États-Unis Expositions.
Esthétisme (Art) États-Unis Influence Expositions.
Art américain 19e siècle Expositions.
Aesthetic movement (Art)
Aesthetic movement (Art) Influence
Art, American
Arts and crafts movement
Decoration and ornament
Eclecticism in art
Art Etats-Unis 19e siècle Catalogues d'exposition.
Esthétique États-Unis Influence anglaise.
Esthétisme (mouvement artistique)
Aesthetic movement Etats-Unis Expositions 1986-1987.
Art 19e siècle Etats-Unis Expositions 1986-1987.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art Expositions 1986-1987.
New York Expositions 1986-1987.
Aesthetic movement (British art) Influence Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 19th century United States Exhibitions.
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
exhibition catalogs.
Art criticism
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.
Critiques d'art.
Books.

Added entries:

Bolger, Doreen, 1949- contributor.
Bolger, Doreen, 1949-
Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney
Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Presentation copies. Johnson, Marilynn. Inscription.
Provenance. Lambert, Phyllis. Inscription.

Americans and the Aesthetic movement

Holdings:

Location: Library main 144427
Call No.: ID EXHNEWYORK; ID:87-B1069
Status: Available

Location: Library main 144426
Call No.: ID N6510.5.E25; ID:87-B1069
Status: Available