In Perfect Harmony: Picture and Frame 1850-1920

Eva Mendgen, et al.

ISBN 10: 0295974788 / ISBN 13: 9780295974781

Published by Van Gogh Museum and Waanders, Amsterdam/Zwolle, 1995

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cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., signature to front free endpaper. faint toning to page outer margins. only slight signs of handling to exterior. no other flaws or wear. no other writing or markings, strong binding.; english text.; 277pp., 234 illustrations, many color plates. eleven essays by various contributors. catalogue, reference material. important exhibition catalogue on the significance of picture frames to particular paintings, whether artist-made, or designed, or as part of the painting itself. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 21851

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Perfect Harmony: Picture and Frame 1850-...

Publisher: Van Gogh Museum and Waanders, Amsterdam/Zwolle

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus

Edition: First English Language Edition.

Book Type: Exhibition Catalogue

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Synopsis:

According to Vincent van Gogh, a painting was not really finished until it was framed; unmounted it was still 'in the raw'. He and many of his contemporaries regarded picture and frame as an aesthetic whole and chose or designed their own frames.
Chapters on Historicism, the Victorians and Pre-Raphaelites, the Secessionist movements (Art Nouveau, Symbolism), Impressionism, and early Modernism examine the relationship between picture and frame in the years 1850 and 1920. Hundreds of works have been illustrated for the first time with their frames - paintings by Arnold Bocklin, Franz von Stuck, Gustav Klimt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederic Lord Leighton, James McNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and many others.