(H/B) ROCOCO

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The stylistic movement known as rococo, which began in eighteenth-century France, has infused design objects with a sinuous, organic, and sensuous impulse for three centuries. Rococo dominated French design from 1730 to 1765, during the reign of Louis XV, turning away from the constraints of classicism toward nature for models, celebrating the tactile as well as the visual, the fantastical over the intellectual. Rococo design ideas, transmitted by decorative-arts prints, objects, and the traveling designers themselves, quickly spread to England, the Netherlands, the German states, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and America.
The rococo impulse went underground during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, then resurfaced in England under the flamboyant George IV and in France during the Second Empire. Rococo's most significant revival occurred when designers found inspiration in the rococo aesthetic for a new design concept known as Art Nouveau. While the austerity of modernism dominated design during the twentieth century, designers continually returned to organic, natural curves as a source of inspiration. In the twenty-first century, the rococo spirit has burst forth once again as a creative force.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, "Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008", featuring fourteen accessible essays by major international scholars and more than 380 full-color illustrations, places the exuberant movement within the historic continuum, bringing together an unprecedented collection of designers and objects of different eras to celebrate the joyful and liberating spirit of rococo. (From the publisher)

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Foreword PAUL WARWICK THOMPSON
The 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
The 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
The Modern Curve: Form, Structure, and Image in the Twentieth Century and Beyond ELLEN LUPTON
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Photographic Credits
Selected Index of Names