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The cult of beauty : the Victorian avant-garde 1860-1900 / edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway ; assisted by Esmé Whittaker.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée d'Orsay
Other Authors: Calloway, Stephen, Orr, Lynn Federle, 1947-, Whittaker, Esmé
Other title:Victorian avant-garde1860-1900.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : San Francisco : New York : V & A Publishing ; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2011.
Edition:[U.S. edition]
Subjects:
Aesthetic movement (Art) > Great Britain > Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Great Britain > Exhibitions.
Art, English > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Aesthetic movement (Art)
Art, English.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Great Britain.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • The search for a new beauty / Stephen Calloway
  • The cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde in context / Lynn Frederick 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.

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