The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900 - Federle Orr, Lynn [Editor]; Calloway, Stephen [Editor]; by Federle Orr, Lynn [Editor]; Calloway, Stephen [Editor]; - 2012-02-29

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London: V&A Publishing, 2011. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto, 11.5 x 10 inches, publisher's deep burgundy cloth boards in dust jacket, fine copy. 296 pp, illustrated mainly in color.

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London/San Francisco/New York: V and A Publishing/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Harry N. Abrams , 2011. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket. large, heavy book., very slight bit of edge-wear to flap of dj. no other flaws or wear. clean. no markings of any sort. no bumps, tears, chips. strong tight binding.; 296pp., 235 illustrations in color. 32 essays and articles by various contributors. catalogue, reference material. comprehensive examination of a 40-year period in british arts.. First Edition /First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue.

London [et al]: V & A Publishing [et all], 2011. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Very fine in very fine fainty spine-sunned jacket. in as new dust-jacket. Folio in multicolor jacket (blue spine); 296 pages: illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color); 30 cmbibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index. Maroon cloth case binding; illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Contents: 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 aesthetic art / Suzanne Fagence Cooper -- 3. The palace of art: artists, collectors and their houses / Stephen Calloway -- Japonisme / Christine M.E. Guth -- Blue-and-white… Read More

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