The cult of beauty : the aesthetic movement, 1860-1900: [exhibition catalogue] / edited by Stephen Calloway and Lynn Federle Orr assisted by Esm� Whittaker

London: V & A Publishing, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description: 296 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition also held at Mus�e d'Orsay, Paris, 12 Sept. 2011 -15 Jan 2012; and the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 18 Feb. - 17 June 2012. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Victoria and Albert Museum (London), 2 Apr. - 17 July 2011. Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-260) and index. Contents: The search for a new beauty / Stephen Calloway -- The cult of beauty: the Victorian avant-garde in context / Lynn Frederick Orr -- 1. Literature and the Aesthetic movement / Susan Owens -- Walter Pater (1839-1894) / Colin Cruise -- 2. Aestheticism in painting / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Early aesthetic photography: Julia Margaret Cameron and David Wilkie Wynfield / Hope Kingsley -- The Musical ideal in asethetic art / Suzanne Fagence Cooper -- 3. The palace of art: artists, collectors and their houses / Stephen Calloway -- Japonisme / Christine M.E. Guth -- Blue-and-white china / Stephen Calloway -- Leighton and Aitchison / Esm� Whittaker -- The Aesthetic movement and architecture / Stefan Muthesius -- 4. Furnishing the aesthetic interior: manuals and theories / Penny Sparke -- Wallpapers / Gill Saunders -- Aesthetic textiles / Sonia Ashmore -- Art and utility: furniture fit for purpose / Frances Collard -- Ceramics / Sonia Solicari -- Aesthetic metalwork / Eric Turner -- 5. The Grosvenor gallery, patronage and the aesthetic portrait / Barbara Bryant -- The ""Aesthetic"" woman / Margaret D. Stetz -- Artists' frames / Lynn Roberts -- Much in little space: Whistler's white and yellow exhibition as an Aesthetic movement bell-wether / David Park Curry -- 6. Aestheticism in the marketplace: fashion, lifestyle and popular taste / Christopher Breward -- Women's dress / Edwina Ehrman -- Jewellery / Clare Phillips -- Punch and satire / Leonce Ormond -- Oscar Wilde / Susan Owens -- Patience and the theatre / Catherine Haill -- ""Tired hedonists"": the decadence of the Aesthetic movement / Stephen Calloway -- Religion and sexuality / Colin Cruise -- Late paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- The new sculpture / Robert Upstone -- ""The cult of indistinctness"": art photography in the 1890s / Hope Kingsley -- The book beautiful / Stephen Calloway movement. Subjects: Aesthetic movement (Art) Great Britain ; Exhibitions. Arts, British 19th century ; Exhibitions.