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Author:

Koda, Harold.

Title:

Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century / Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton ; with an introduction by Mimi Hellman.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

128 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Subject:

Clothing and dress--France--History--18th century--Exhibitions.
Furniture--France--History--18th century--Exhibitions.
France--Social life and customs--18th century--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Bolton, Andrew, 1966-
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Apr. 29-Sept. 6, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125).

Contents:

Interior motives: seduction by decoration in eighteenth-century France / Mimi Hellman -- The portrait: an unexpected entanglement -- The levée: the assiduous admirer -- The music lesson: a window of opportunity -- The withdrawing room: a helpful valet -- The masked beauty -- The favorite -- The broken vase: a consoling merchant -- The card game: cheating at Cavagnole -- The late supper: the memento.

Summary:

"Published after the closing of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Set against a background of French Rococo and Neoclassical masterpieces of paintings, furniture, and decorative arts in the Museum's Wrightsman Galleries, these charming images reveal how French style in fashon and interiors was not only meant to be beautiful, but also to attract, arouse and seduce the viewer."--The Metropolitan Museum of Art web site.

ISBN:

9780300107142 (Yale University Press trade hardcover)
0300107145 (Yale University Press trade hardcover)
9781588391476 (Metropolitan Museum hardcover)
1588391477 (Metropolitan Museum hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62896464

LCCN:

2006000859

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)