Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century; [catalogue adapted from the exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons - Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 29 to September 6, 2004] / Harold Koda

Metropolitan Museum of Art

2007, 1st edition. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #330390
ISBN: 0300107145

Physical description: 128 pages: color illustrations; 31 cm. Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Apr. 29-Sept. 6, 2004. Based on the exhibition "Dangerous liaisons: fashion and furniture in the 18th century" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 29th April - 6th September 2004. Includes bibliographical references (page 125). Contents: Interior motives: seduction by decoration in eighteenth-century France / Mimi Hellman -- The portrait: an unexpected entanglement -- The leve ée: 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. Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Exhibitions. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Clothing and dress France History 18th century; Exhibitions. Furniture France History 18th century; Exhibitions. Manners and customs. Fashion and art; Exhibitions. Genre: Bibliography. Catalogue. Exhibition catalogs. Illustrated. 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.

Price: €125.00