The Cult of Beauty : : the Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900

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Call Number: 709.034 Cu
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This edition published to accompany the exhibition held 18 Feb. - 17 June 2012 at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco having previously been held 2 Apr. - 17 Jul. 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and 12 Sept. 2011 - 15 Jan. 2012 at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Maroon cloth case binding; illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers.
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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