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Description:Recounts the Aesthetic movement in America and assesses the impact of the movement.Published to coincide with a major loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 1986 to Jan. 11, 1987.Contents:Director's Foreword / Philippe de MontebelloThe 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 Stained glass in the aesthetic period / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen --Aesthetic forms in ceramics and glass / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen --Metalwork / David A. Hanks, Jennifer Toher --Painters and sculptors in a decorative age / Doreen Bolger Burke --American architecture and the aesthetic movement / James D. Kornwolf --American writers and the aesthetic movement / Jonathan FreedmanDictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists, and Manufacturers / Catherine Hoover VoorsangerWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. To get started finding In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Recounts the Aesthetic movement in America and assesses the impact of the movement.Published to coincide with a major loan exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 23, 1986 to Jan. 11, 1987.Contents:Director's Foreword / Philippe de MontebelloThe 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 Stained glass in the aesthetic period / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen --Aesthetic forms in ceramics and glass / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen --Metalwork / David A. Hanks, Jennifer Toher --Painters and sculptors in a decorative age / Doreen Bolger Burke --American architecture and the aesthetic movement / James D. Kornwolf --American writers and the aesthetic movement / Jonathan FreedmanDictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists, and Manufacturers / Catherine Hoover VoorsangerWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. To get started finding In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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