Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN-10
0300113412
ISBN-13
9780300113419
Series
Objects of Desire
Category
Architecture
Pages
96
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Art Inst of Chicago
Author
Judith A. Barter

Description

This volume focuses on a wide range of Victorian-era objects from Britain and the United States in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The following topics are explored: still-life painting in nineteenth-century America; the burgeoning Victorian print market; a fascinating sketchbook used by the English painter Edward Burne-Jones; a spectacular Gothic-style British wine cabinet; and a rare photographic album compiled by an aristocratic English family. Also featured, in a portfolio section, are other highlights from the museum's Victorian collection, including furniture, paintings, photographs, textiles, and works on paper by such noted artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, William Morris, and John Everett Millais.

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