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Subtitle: Stuff of dreams : from the Paris Musée des arts décoratifs
By: Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, Odile Nouvel-Kammerer.
Contributors: Nouvel, Odile.; Portland Art Museum (Or.); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.; Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
Publisher: Portland Art Museum
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Portland, Or.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Musée des arts décoratifs (France) -- Exhibitions.; Decorative arts -- France -- Exhibitions.; Decorative arts -- France -- Paris -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Stuff of dreams
Description: "Matieres de Reves: Stuff of Dreams from the Paris Musee des Arts Decoratifs will introduce audiences to the aesthetic potential of utilitarian objects as it reproduces and discusses over 100 astonishing objects created between the Middle Ages and the present. Each of the works selected for this catalogue surpasses all standards of tradition, craftsmanship, and utility. A latent surrealistic element links the variety of rich, elegant, elaborate, sometimes curious and always sensuous works of art.

In addition, most of the objects carry with them fascinating stories about their origins, their makers, and those persons who commissioned, collected, used, or loved them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Or., Feb. 2-Apr. 28, 2002; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn., June 1-Aug. 11, 2002, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 22, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 7 FOREWORD; title: John E. Buchanan, Jr.; title: 9 FOREWORD; title: Helene David-Weill; title: 11 THE NEW MUSEE DES ARTS DCORATIFS; title: Beatrice Salmon; title: 15 THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSE E DES ARTS DECORATIFS; title: Odile Nouvel-Kammerer; title: 21 STUFF OF DREAMS; title: Penelope Hunter-Stiebel; title: 23 CATALOGUE.