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Summary: This book 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 a new Beauty. "The Aesthetic movement", as it came to be known, united romantic bohemians such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, along with maverick figures such as James McNeill Whistler. The book brings together the finest pictures, furniture and decorative arts of this extraordinary era, setting them in the context of this glittering cast of characters. This beautiful book also reveals how artists' houses and their extravagant lifestyles became the object of public fascination. The influence of the 'Palaces of Art' created by Rossetti and Morris, Lord Leighton and others led to a widespread revolution in architecture and interior decoration, while Oscar Wilde made his name promoting the idea of 'The House Beautiful'.
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The cult of beauty: the aesthetic movement 1860-1900
2011, V&A Publishing
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1851776281 9781851776283
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The cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde, 1860-1900
2011, V & A Pub., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, V & A Publishing, Abrams
in English
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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 April-17 July 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and 12 Sept. 2011-15 Jan. 2012 at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260) and index.
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