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Vasemania : neoclassical form and ornament in Europe : selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A239

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Type of record: Book

Title: Vasemania : neoclassical form and ornament in Europe : selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Other titles: Neoclassical form and ornament in Europe

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A239

Creator(s): McCormick, Heather Jane; Ottomeyer, Hans

Additional creator(s): Walker, Stephanie (Editor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Sponsoring body); Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture (Sponsoring body)

Publisher: Published for the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by Yale University Press

Publication city: New Haven; London

Date(s): [2004]

Language: English

Size and medium: xi, 194 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722695

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019794489805181

Description

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, 22 July-17 October 2004.


Illustrations on endpapers.


Incorrect ISBN from jacket; correct ISBN from publisher's website.


Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.


Collecting neoclassical decorative art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Heather Jane McCormick -- The metamorphosis of the neoclassical vase / Hans Ottomeyer -- The Hamilton collection and its influence -- The vase as a template for artists and early neoclassicism -- Tradition and innovation at the royal manufactories -- Technical discoveries and the commercial marketing of the vase -- Neoclassicism and the new aesthetic in silver -- The vase as ornament in furniture and furnishings -- The vase as a design element in interiors -- Symbol to satire: the vase as icon.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A239: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: OR/23.

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