Название: 19th-Century America Furniture and Other Decorative Arts
Автор(ы): Berry B. Tracy, Marilynn Johnson, Marvin D. Schwartz
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Graphic Society
Год: 1970
ISBN: 1870090055
Страниц: 270
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 80 MB

As the central feature of its year-long Centennial the Metropolitan Museum has mounted a spectacular exhibition of American decorative arts of the nineteenth century. Federal, Empire, Gothic, Rococo, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, Reform—the century's principal styles succeed one another in a series of lavish room settings and galleries that display the 300 prime pieces illustrated and discussed in this book. More than 200 of these objects, including furniture, silver, glass, ceramics, and metalwork, are treasures of the Museum's American Wing, some of them accessioned during the Museum's early years, a substantial number acquired only recently and never shown before. The rest of the material has been lent to the exhibition from other museums, institutions, and private collections.