Rococo : the continuing curve, 1730-2008 / Sarah D. Coffin [and others]

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.

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.