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Strut - The Peacock and Beauty in Art (Paperback)
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Strut - The Peacock and Beauty in Art (Paperback)
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Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art explores our fascination with
that most glamorous of birds.
The peacock, strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green
plumage, symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of
painting and sculpture, in books, and on clothes that swirl and
shine like the iridescent bird itself.
Intrigued by the exotic art of Asia that prized and portrayed the
peacock and its trail of an emblazoned train of feathers, Western
artists in the 1890s chose the bird as a symbol of design on their
canvases and for objects in the home.
Though striking Gilded Age peacock imagery escalated in
fin-de-siecle French Art Nouveau and the Art Deco of the Roaring
Twenties, the Great Depression of 1929 quelled the idea of beauty
for its own sake; art now needed to be more than beautiful it
should serve, first, the social good. While in the aftermath of the
Depression and a world war Americans of the '50s looked, again, for
luxury, modernism gave rise to the ethos "Less is more." The
peacock's profile changed once more, this time into a symbol of
drama and decadence.
Today, as the contemporary art world renews its embrace of visual
beauty, the peacock in form, color, and association resurges.
The first major scholarly examination of the peacock in visual arts
in the United States, England, and France, from the nineteenth
century's Gilded Age to today, Strut, organized by the Hudson River
Museum, has assembled paintings and decorative arts from museums
and private collections throughout the United States.
Contributing essays to the catalog Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in
Art by Bartholomew F. Bland; Penelope Fritzer; Kirsten M. Jensen;
Melissa J. Martens; Ellen E. Roberts; and Laura L. Vookles."
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