The Peacock Room : A Cultural Biography

The Peacock Room : A Cultural Biography

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Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated book tells the history of the Peacock Room, decorated by James McNeill Whistler for wealthy London shipowner Frederick Leyland and currently on display at the Freer Gallery of Art. The history offers fascinating insights into nineteenth-century British culture-taste, patronage, attitudes toward Asian art, origins of art nouveau, and relation to American culture.

Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. .

The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography,Linda Merrill,Yale University Press,0300076118,1834-1903,19th Century Art,Architecture,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Criticism and interpretation,Decoration & Ornament,European,History - General,Individual Artist,Interior Design - General,Peacock Room,Residential Interior Design,Whistler, James McNeill,,20th century,Art / History / European,Cultural studies,History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900,Home furnishing & decoration,Interior design,United Kingdom, Great Britain,c 1800 to c 1900

Book Contents:

1. The Theory and Practice of Translation
2. The Tile Book: Decorating With Fired Earth
3. The Virgin Goddess: Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology (Studies in the History of Religions)
4. The Woman Jesus Loved: Mary Magdalene in the Nag Hammadi Library and Related Documents (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 40)
5. Time-Saver Details for Store Planning and Design
6. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Gephardt Edition 1925)
7. Trade Fair Design Annual 2005/2006
8. Victoria: At Home with Roses: Patterns, Petals & Prints to Adorn Every Room
9. What Goes With What: Home Decorating Made Easy
10. White Christmas : Decorating and Entertaining for the Holiday Season

Book Contents

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