Salvaging the past
Subtitle: Georges Hoentschel and French decorative arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, Deborah L. Krohn, and Ulrich Leben, editors ; essays by Christine E. Brennan, Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, Deborah L. Krohn, Ulrich Leben, and Amy F. Ogata ; with contributions by master's and doctoral students of the Bard Graduate Center
Contributors: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Bard Graduate Center; Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture; Metropolitan Musuem of Art; Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780300190243
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Decorative arts; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; History
Other titles: Georges Hoentschel and French decorative arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description: "This book explores the life, professional activities, artistic production and collecting practices of Georges Hoentschel through the objects he collected and created. Essays by the editors, joined by Amy F. Ogata, associate professor at Bard Graduate Center and Christine E. Brennan, senior research associate in Medieval Art as the Metropolitan Museum, address his biography, business contacts, and clients, as well as the arrival of the collection in New York, its lavish four-volume illustrated catalogue, and the medieval collections. Also discussed is Hoentschel's involvement with contemporary art, including his intriguing stoneware creations and designs for a pavilion and interiors at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Fully illustrated catalogue entries explore the astonishing range of objects he collected. Throughout the book, new documentary material from archives and newspapers illuminates this little-explored chapter in the history of collecting decorative arts between France and America at the dawn of the twentieth century."--book jacket.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center from April 4 to August 11, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Susan Weber; title: Preface / Thomas P. Campbell; title: Avant-Propos / Nicole Hoentschel; title: Introduction / Deborah L. Krohn; title: The Hoentschel collection comes to New York / Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide; title: Georges Hoentschel and his world / Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Ulrich Leben; title: Interiors by Georges Hoentschel: salvaging fragments of a lost world / Ulrich Leben; title: Cataloguing Hoentschel in word and image / Deborah L. Krohn; title: George Hoentschel's 'gothic importance' / Christine E. Brennan; title: The Union centrale des arts décoratifs pavilion, art nouveau, and the cabinet d'amateur at the fin de siècle / Amy F. Ogata; title: "All beautiful in form and delicious in color": Hoentschel and ceramics / Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide.