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Orchestrating Elegance - Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room (Hardcover): Alexix Goodin, Kathleen M. Morris Orchestrating Elegance - Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room (Hardcover)
Alexix Goodin, Kathleen M. Morris; Contributions by Melody Deusner, Hugh Glover, Alexix Goodin, …
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the 19th century, New York City's grand mansions on Fifth and Madison Avenues boasted sumptuous interiors, often with each room decorated in a different historic style. Financier, art collector, and philanthropist Henry Gurdon Marquand famously commissioned eminent British painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) to create the Greco-Pompeian music room for his home. This beautiful publication documents and examines the celebrated design, which included an elaborately decorated Steinway grand piano, a large suite of matching furniture, and an embroidery scheme for the upholstery and coordinated curtains. Alma-Tadema secured Frederic Leighton to create a major painting for the room's ceiling and Sir Edward Poynter to paint the piano's fallboard. One of Alma-Tadema's most famous paintings, A Reading from Homer, was painted for this room. For the first time since Marquand's death in 1902, the contents of this exceptional room have been brought together and considered in light of Marquand's patronage, Alma-Tadema's career, the firm that manufactured the furniture, and the social function of the music room. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute (06/04/17-09/04/17)

Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America - Collectors, Art Worlds, Networks (Hardcover): Melody Deusner Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America - Collectors, Art Worlds, Networks (Hardcover)
Melody Deusner
R1,263 R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Save R408 (32%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A thought-provoking look at Aesthetic painting and its relationship to the changing technological landscape In the 19th century, the Aesthetic movement exalted taste, the pursuit of beauty, and self-expression over moral expectations and restrictive conformity. This illuminating publication examines the production and circulation of artworks made during this unique historical moment. Looking at how specific works of art in this style were created, collected, and exchanged, the book pushes beyond the notion of Aesthetic painting and design as being merely decorative. Instead, work by James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Albert Moore, and others is shown to have offered their makers and viewers a means of further engaging with the rapidly changing world around them. This multifaceted and thought-provoking study provides a radical new perspective on a mode of artistic production, linking it to the era's expanding visual culture and the technological advancements that contributed to it. In a period marked by increasing connectivity, this book shows how art of the Aesthetic movement on both sides of the Atlantic figured into growing global networks. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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