Director's Foreword by Philippe de Montebello
Contributors
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgments
Explanatory Notes
Preface
Artifact as Ideology: The Aesthetic Movement in its American Cultural Context
Roger B. Stein
Decorating Surfaces: Aesthetic Delight, Theoretical Dilemma
Catherine Lynn
Surface Ornament: Wallpapers, Carpets, Textiles, and Embroidery
Catherine Lynn
The Artful Interior
Marilynn Johnson
Art Furniture: Wedding the Beautiful to the Useful
Marilynn Johnson
A New Renaissance: Stained Glass in the Aesthetic Period
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Aesthetic Forms in Ceramic and Glass
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Metalwork: An Ecclectic Aesthetic
David A. Hanks with Jennifer Toher
Painters and Sculptors in a Decorative Age
Doreen Bolger Burke
American Architecutre and the Aesthetic Movement
James D. Kornwolf
An Aesthetics of our Own: American Writers and the Aesthetic Movement
Jonathan Freedman
Dictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists, and Manufacturers
Catherine Hoover Voorsanger
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits