TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coffin,Sarah
ED  - Cooper-Hewitt Museum
TI  - Rococo: the continuing curve, 1730-2008 
SN  - 9780910503921
AV  - Art/NK1355 .R63 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Distributed by Assouline Pub.
KW  - Decorative arts, Rococo
KW  - History
KW  - Exhibitions
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Rococo
KW  - Influence
N1  - Catalog of an exhibition held at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, Mar. 7-July 6, 2008; Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index; Foreword; Paul Warwick Thompson --; Continuing curve; Penelope Hunter-Stiebel --; Rococo redux: from the style moderne of the eighteenth century to art nouveau; Melissa Lee Hyde --; Juste-Aurele Meissonnier and his patrons; Peter Fuhring --; Ornament of bizarre imagination: rococo prints and drawings from Cooper-Hewitt's Leon Decloux collection; Gail S Davidson --; Louis XV style; Penelope Hunter-Stiebel --; Eighteenth-century Nancy: the good king and the blacksmith; Penelope Hunter-Stiebel --; Radiating rococo: the dissemination of style through migrating designers, craftsmen, and objects in the eighteenth century; Sarah D Coffin --; German rococo: from Cuvillies in Munich to Nahl in Potsdam; Ulrich Leben --; Rococo in Holland: the assimilation of a foreign style; Reinier Baarsen --; Emulation and subversion: nineteenth-century rococo revivals in the graphic arts; Gail S Davidson --; Rococo revival in English and American nineteenth-century silver; Sarah D Coffin --; Equal to any in the world: rococo-revival furniture in America; Jason Busch --; Art nouveau; Penelope Hunter-Stiebel --; Modern curve: form, structure, and image in the twentieth century and beyond; Ellen Lupton --; Endnotes --; Selected bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Photographic credits --; Selected index of names
N2  - From the Publisher: Book accompanies a major exhibition opening March 2008 at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.  This groundbreaking work explores the sensuous and organic rococo style and its many revivals.  More than 300 lavish full-color illustrations chart the progress of the style through the centuries
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