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'Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde' in S.F.

San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 18, 2012
Aubrey Beardsley's "The Climax, Salome," 1894, acknowledges another side of the Aesthetic Movement, as does Christopher Dresser's teapot (left), electroplated nickel silver with ebony, 1879. In "The Other Victorians," his groundbreaking 1966 book on ...

Oscar Wilde, darling of the Aesthetic Movement

San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 12, 2012
By the time Oscar Wilde was a precocious undergraduate at Oxford, the Aesthetic Movement was in full flower. Costumed in a cello-shaped bronze coat he had tailored to wear at the opening of the important Grosvenor Gallery in 1877, the budding arbiter ...

'Cult of Beauty: Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900'

San Francisco Chronicle - Feb 12, 2012
The artists associated with what became known as the Aesthetic Movement sought to live a holistic "artistic" life, making and surrounding themselves with beautiful images, furniture and textiles that drew on sources as varied as medieval English art, ...

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

The Cult of Beauty focuses on a period at the end of the nineteenth century when a group of artists, architects, and designers found themselves linked by the search for anew Beauty. The Aesthetic Movement, as it came to be known, united romantic bohemians, such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones, with maverick figures like James McNeill Whistler. The Cult of Beauty brings together the finest pictures, furniture, and decorative arts of this extraordinary era, setting them in the context of this glittering cast of characters.
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Bungalow The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home

by: Jane Powell

Bungalow: The Ultimate Arts & Crafts Home is the definitive compilation of Arts & Crafts architecture, philosophy, and architectural details. Bungalow expert Jane Powell examines a variety of bungalows and Arts & Crafts homes across the U.S. and Canada, exploring and dissecting the best to come up with a book that defines the very nature of the bungalow itself.

From a sleeping porch to a claw footed tub, to hallmark uses of wood, stone, and tile, the insightful text is accompanied by Linda Svendsen's detailed and expressive photography.
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The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

by: Allen Staley

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings by Frederick Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
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Design in the USA

by: Jeffrey L. Meikle
From the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lamp, the world in which we live has been profoundly influenced for over a century by the work of American designers. But the product is only the end of a story that is full of fascinating questions. What has been the social and cultural role of design in American society? To produce useful things that consumers need? Or to persuade them to buy things they don't need? Where does the designer stand in all of this? And how has the role of design in America changed over time, since the early days of the young Republic?.
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Antique American Victorian Aesthetic Movement ebonized

www.newel.com - Newel.com: Antique American Victorian Aesthetic Movement ebonized roll top lady's desk with gallery top upper section & stretcher base with lower drawer and inlaid & incised trim (att: Herter Bros.) (American, Victorian, table, desk, ebonized) (Newel Art and Antiques, New York City)

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Antique American Victorian (Aesthetic Movement) silver

www.newel.com - Newel.com: Antique American Victorian (Aesthetic Movement) silver plate 6 piece tea set with floral trim (Meridian Co.) (American, Victorian, accessories, tea/coffee set, silver-plate) (Newel Art and Antiques, New York City)

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Victoria and Albert pays tribute to 19th century aesthetic beauty.

London, 4 Apr (EFE), (Camera: Guillermo Ximenis).- The aesthetic movement of the late 19th century is the focus of an extraordinary exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum that brings together paintings, sculptures, furniture and decorative items created in the pursuit of beauty.

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Arts and Crafts Architecture - Arquitectura

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, Australian, and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century.

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