In Perfect Harmony: Picture + Frame, 1850 - 1920 (an exhibition catalogue)
By Eva Mendgen.
Description
Large format hardback, cloth over boards with a sewn binding. 3.75 pounds; 278 pp; color illustrations throughout. According to 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 through 1920...
ISBN(s)
9040097291, 9789040097294
