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In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement

In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement

Burke, Doreen Bolger, et al.

1986

512 pages

419 illustrations

9.5 x 12 in

This title is out of print.

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Table of contents

About the authors

Director's Foreword by Philippe de Montebello
Contributors
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Explanatory Notes

Preface

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 Ceramic and Glass
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen

Metalwork: An Ecclectic 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 Aesthetics of our Own: American Writers and the Aesthetic Movement
Jonathan Freedman

Dictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists, and Manufacturers
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger

Selected Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits

Met Art in Publication

The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog, Thomas Eakins American, Oil on canvas, American — The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
Thomas Eakins
ca. 1884–89

The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination

John Henry Twachtman

Stone and Kimball

1896

Art Decoration Applied to Furniture

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Harper & Brothers

1878

Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and other details

Charles Locke Eastlake

James R. Osgood & Co.

1872

Daffodil textile, Candace Wheeler American, Printed and woven cotton velvet, American — Daffodil textile
Candace Wheeler
Associated Artists
1883–1900

Bees-and-honeycomb textile, Candace Wheeler American, Silk and wool, woven, American — Bees-and-honeycomb textile
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1883

Tulips panel, Candace Wheeler American, Silk and metallic cloth appliqued with silk velvet and embroidered with silk and metallic-wrapped cotton threads, American — Tulips panel
Multiple artists/makers
1883–87

Irises panel, Candace Wheeler American, Silk embroidered with silk and metallic-wrapped cotton threads, metal sequins, and cut-glass beads, American — Irises panel
Multiple artists/makers
1883

Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern, Tamar Horton Harris North American, Silk, silk velvet, cotton, and cotton lace, American — Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern
Tamar Horton Harris North
ca. 1877

Library Table, Herter Brothers American, Rosewood, brass, mother-of-pearl, and abalone, American — Library Table
Herter Brothers
1879–82

The Backgammon Players, Philip Webb British, Painted pine, oil paint on leather, brass, copper, British — The Backgammon Players
Multiple artists/makers
1861

Cabinet, Daniel Pabst American, born Germany, Walnut, maple, white pine, glass, American — Cabinet
Daniel Pabst
ca. 1877–80

The House Beautiful, Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks, Clarence Cook American, Illustrations: color lithographs and wood engraving — The House Beautiful, Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks
Multiple artists/makers
1878

Hanging Key Cabinet, Kimbel and Cabus American, Oak, American — Hanging Key Cabinet
Kimbel and Cabus
ca. 1874

Bedstead from the Henry Gurdon Marquand House, New York City, Bird's-eye maple, maple, and tulip poplar, American — Bedstead from the Henry Gurdon Marquand House, New York City
American
1881–84

Table, Bird's-eye maple, maple, tulip poplar, American — Table
American
1878–84

Wardrobe, Herter Brothers American, Cherry, American — Wardrobe
Herter Brothers
1875–1883

Peonies Blown in the Wind, John La Farge American, Leaded opalescent glass, American — Peonies Blown in the Wind
John La Farge
ca. 1880

Writing box, Lacquer with gold, mother-of-pearl inlay, Japan — Writing box
Japan
18th century

Gourd-Shaped Bottle, Porcelain (Jingdezhen ware), China — Gourd-Shaped Bottle
China
mid-16th century

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Bolger, Doreen, and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), eds. 1986. In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Rizzoli.