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Aesthetic Movement Flashcards

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“The Potter’s Wheeler” from Christopher Dresser, Japan: It’s Architecture, Art, and Manufacture

London, Longmans, Green

1882

Christopher Dresser goes to Japan for Tiffany & Co.

Japanese goods unseen by Americans - unique, clean, modern

truth in materials, honest in construction

Taste for Japanese includes anything Asian - cultural ignorance

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Rookwood Pottery

Vase, 1882

founded in 1880 by Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, daughter of wealthy Joseph Longworth

inspired by Japanese and French ceramics at Philadelphia Centennial

designed to be at least as decorative as useful

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Harriet Elizabeth Wilcox, decorator

Rookwood Pottery, Vase

Cincinnati, 1899

decorative figures of China men - interest in Japan

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Associated Artists

Veterans (Tiffany) Room

Seventh Regiment Armory, New York

1879 - 80

every surface has potential for decoration

Room by Herter Brothers

International influence

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Aesthetic Movement

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1876 - 1900

interest in aesthetics, not necessarily a movement, no unified group

“art for art’s sake”

cult of beauty, approach interior design & life as multisensory experience, objects prized for ways they integrate beauty into life

not interested in reforming industry, interested in private sphere & creating center of beauty, arrangement of objects

harmony in diverse objects to pursue aesthetic ideals, come together in symphony instead of fighting each other

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Dandy

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Example - Oscar Wilde, “everyday I aspire to be as beautiful as my blue and white pottery”

effeminate, interest in beauty, interiority, self-involved which is how aestheticism becomes about interiorization

opposite of Fleneur - modern icon, goes outside, witness modern life

Dandy can’t go and do things the flaneur is doing

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Lockwood de Forest

screen, teak, plaited matting and mixed metals

Ahmedabad, India, and/or New York

1881 - 90

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James McNeil Whistler

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room and Rose and Silver: The Princess from the Land of Porcelain

home of Frederick R. Leyland

Liverpool, England, 1876-77

each singular element coming in to contribute to a harmonious whole

beauty prized above all, harmony between decorative arts, Room named as if it was an artwork, both arts treated equally, unified space

Japanism, orientalism, peacock, vanity - consumption, collecting, wealth, early example of aestheticism in America

Whistler gets out of control in Leyland’s mind, didnt ask for all he did, can’t take it back, results in lawsuit, Whistler paints into the walls a threat, 2 peacocks represent Whistler and Leyland who is sqwaking trying to show feathers, Leyland ends up paying

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Thomas Jeckyll and Barnard, Bishop and Barnard

Sunflower andiron

brass

1876

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Lockwood de Forest, designer

“Hindoo” fireplace surround

Olana, 1887

probably made in India

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Unknown designer (often attributed to Helena Gilder)

cover design for The New Day: A Poem in Songs and Sonnets by Richard Watson Gilder

illustrations engraved by Henry Mash, gold stamped blue cloth

1876

aestheticism

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Alexandre Sandler “Much in Little Space”

illustration from Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks (London: 1878, NY: 1881)

Immediately printed as “A Comfortable Corner” by Lucy Orrinsmith for The Drawing Room: Its Decoration and Furniture (London: 1878)

furniture should tell about who you are as a person, never have anything that isn’t functional

diverse influences to show one’s cultivation

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Frederick Edwin Church

Hall Court, Olana

1886

ecelecticism, Japanese, Turkish, orientalism

cultivates artistic persona, documents his travels

varying degrees of decoration, international influence

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A.A. Vantine & Co.

Table, inlaid wood

1885

Turkish, side table probably used for smoking in original context

fantasy of objects equally as important to object itself

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George Hunzinger (German immigre)

armchair

walnut, black ash, modern upholstery

New York, 1869

eclectic style, leading figure in patent furniture

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George A. Schastey and Company

Worktable

amaranth, satinwood, walnut, mahogany, poplar, brass, pewter or lead, mother-of-peal, glass, unknown colored resin

1881-1882

identified as Schastey by patterning reminiscent of work in Rockefeller Room

high end furniture, matched with full interior, designed en suite

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George A. Schastey

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German immigre, comes to US in 1849

trained with Herter Brothers, works in many workshops, splits off to establish his own firm and becomes competitor

high end furniture cabinetmaker part of collector’s market, turning into leading interior designers, full interior enembles

work often confused with Herter

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Herter Brothers

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Partnership of Gustave and Christian Herter

Gustave moves in 1848, brother in 1859

1864 aesthetic movement is just begining to take form

Gustave returns to Germany and Christian becomes leading designer

interest in handicraft, running a factory but still artisans executing designs

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Herter Brothers

Cabinet

maple, oak or chesnut, stamped and gilt paper, gilding inlay and carved decoration, original brass pulls and key

1880

architectural form, exotic woods, Japanism

expression of global influece

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Herter Brothers

Fire Screen

gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper

1878-80

more obviously Japanese, garland on top, urn, paw feet

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Candace Wheeler for Associated Artists

Consider the Lilies of the Field

curtain, 1879

patenting new techniques, copyrights her designs

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Candace Wheeler

Honeybee frieze and field wallpaper

1881

reproduction manufactured by JR Burrows & Co., Rockland, MA 2006

designer thought about design, representing the “wellness” of its place by referencing classical order

multiple papers/designs to create architectural order

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Associated Artists

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Candice Wheeler, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Samuel Coleman

many design projects - Madison Square Garden, Mark Twain House, 7th Regiment Armory

Wheeler takes over, donates textiles to the Met

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Dora Wheeler for Associated Artists

Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night

silk embroidered with silk thread

1886

designed by Wheeler’s daughter, pro-woman independence

Penelope has agency in marrying process

developed a number of literary tapestries reference mythology, female heroines

considered innovative work, Wheeler patents “needlewoven tapestry” subtly embroidered work carefully modulated as paintings

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Clara Driscoll

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known as one of the “Tiffany Girls”

worked for Tiffany in 3 seperate phases

reduced wages

rules: 1) unmarried 2) widowed 3) divorced

woman who is able to use handicraft to promote economic independence

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Probably designed by Candace Wheeler

Carp

mosaic plaque, bronze and glass

1899

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Designed by Frank Shaw

Tilt-top table

tiffany & Company

electroplated silver over copper, mahogany

patented design

display of wealth that contradicts itself (electroplating)

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Tiffany & Co.

“Squirrel” child’s set

New York, silver

1915

excess of wealth, ever child needs silver?

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Macaroni server

silver, parcel gilding

1865

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Ben Pittman, designer

Adalaide Nourse Pitman, carver

Elizabeth Nourse, painter

Bedstead

Cincinnati, 1883

interest in florals, American eclecticism

all hand-carved, bed as a work of art

investiment in something entirely romantic, commercial, economic

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Celia Laighton Thaxter

Vase with daffodil (Narcissus)

earthenware, 1882

poet living in Main, runs family hotel, unable to make enough money on writing, husband lame, son disabled, supplements income with pottery, buys white, unglazed ceramics and paints them then sells

women become fascinated wtih ceramics after the Exposition

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Charles (Carl) Schmidt, decorator

Rookwood Pottery, plaque

Cincinnati, 1916

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Sara Sax, decorator

Rookwood Pottery

Vase, 1913

each piece signed by artist, treated as artwork

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Marie Evans, decorator

Cincinnati Art Pottery

Vase, 1887

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Charles (Carl) Schmidt, decorator

Rookwood Pottery

Vase, 1902

Cincinnati

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interior by Christian Herter for Herter Brothers

decorative painting by Pierre-Victor Galland

North-west Corner of Drawing Room with portions of Galland’s Fete

William H. Vanderbilt Residence, 640 Fifth Avenue, NY

1882

highly decorative

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Herter Brothers

Side Chair

made for drawing room of William H. Vanderbilt residence

gilded maple, mother-of-pearl, upholstery not original

1881-82

Decorative Arts 1850 - Present (9 decks)

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