The cult of beauty
Subtitle: the Victorian avant-garde, 1860-1900
By: edited by Lynn Federle Orr and Stephen Calloway ; assisted by Esmé Whittaker
Contributors: Victoria and Albert Museum; Musée d'Orsay; Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Edition: [U.S. ed.].
Publisher: V & A Pub.; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams; V & A Publishing; Abrams
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; San Francisco; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781851776948; 9781851776955
Subjects: History; Victorian Arts; Aesthetic movement (Art); Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Decorative arts; English Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Victorian avant-garde, 1860-1900
Notes: This edition published to accompany the exhibition held 18 Feb.-17 June 2012 at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, having previously been held 2 April-17 July 2011 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and 12 Sept. 2011-15 Jan. 2012 at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: The search for a new beauty / Stephen Calloway; title: The cult of beauty : the Victorian avant-garde in context / Lynn Frederick Orr; title: 1. Literature and the Aesthetic movement / Susan Owens; title: Walter Pater (1839-1894) / Colin Cruise; title: 2. Aestheticism in painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn; title: Early aesthetic photography : Julia Margaret Cameron and David Wilkie Wynfield / Hope Kingsley; title: The Musical ideal in asethetic art / Suzanne Fagence Cooper; title: 3. The palace of art : artists, collectors and their houses / Stephen Calloway; title: Japonisme / Christine M.E. Guth; title: Blue-and-white china / Stephen Calloway; title: Leighton and Aitchison / Esmé Whittaker; title: The Aesthetic movement and architecture / Stefan Muthesius; title: 4. Furnishing the aesthetic interior : manuals and theories / Penny Sparke; title: Wallpapers / Gill Saunders; title: Aesthetic textiles / Sonia Ashmore; title: Art and utility : furniture fit for purpose / Frances Collard; title: Ceramics / Sonia Solicari; title: Aesthetic metalwork / Eric Turner; title: 5. The Grosvenor gallery, patronage and the aesthetic portrait / Barbara Bryant; title: The "Aesthetic" woman / Margaret D. Stetz; title: Artists' frames / Lynn Roberts; title: Much in little space : Whistler's white and yellow exhibition as an Aesthetic movement bell-wether / David Park Curry; title: 6. Aestheticism in the marketplace : fashion, lifestyle and popular taste / Christopher Breward; title: Women's dress / Edwina Ehrman; title: Jewellery / Clare Phillips; title: Punch and satire / Leonce Ormond; title: Oscar Wilde / Susan Owens; title: Patience and the theatre / Catherine Haill; title: "Tired hedonists" : the decadence of the Aesthetic movement / Stephen Calloway; title: Religion and sexuality / Colin Cruise; title: Late paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn; title: The new sculpture / Robert Upstone; title: "The cult of indistinctness" : art photography in the 1890s / Hope Kingsley; title: The book beautiful / Stephen Calloway.