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by Mimi Hellman,Harold Koda

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Mimi Hellman,Harold Koda

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Koda, Harold, and Andrew Bolton, with an introduction by Mimi Hellman (2006). This title is out of print. Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. Bean, Jacob, with the assistance of Lawrence Turcic. Fifteenth–Eighteenth Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. The Biron Collection of Venetian Eighteenth-Century Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum. Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 3 (1970). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970.

In 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City went through its extensive collections, and assembled a. .

In 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City went through its extensive collections, and assembled a collection of rooms, clothing, everyday objects, and put them together to recreate a lost world of glamour and intrigue. Fans of the filmed versions of Dangerous Liaisons will have a field day with this, and perhaps inspiration to do further explorations into a world where excess was the norm, and the art of beautiful living was carried to a zenith.

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During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments.

The vignettes, staged for the widely praised exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, feature eighteenth-century costumes in the Museum's spectacular French period rooms, The Wrightsman Galleries. During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments.

Dangerous Liaisons book. I particularly enjoyed the in-depth discussion of eighteenth century dress and furniture in paintings, even though that was just a backdrop for the book's discussion of the MET exhibit. I wish I could have seen this exhibit in person.

During the reigns of Louis XV (1723–74) and Louis XVI (1774–92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments

During the reigns of Louis XV (1723–74) and Louis XVI (1774–92) fashion and furniture merged ideals of beauty and pleasure through their forms and embellishments. With their fragile surfaces and delicate proportions, tables, chairs, and other pieces of furniture enhanced the elites indulgence in leisurely pursuits, fostering highly complex standards of etiquette and performance. Men and women restated the splendor of the Rococo and Neoclassical interiors of the period in their opulent costumes.

Eighteenth-Century Studies 3. (1999) 415-445 In 1742, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon published a novel entitled Le Sopha (The Sofa). A critique of contemporary French society cast in a fictional orientalist mode, Le Sopha is set in the court of an indolent sultan. In the eighteenth-century French Atlantic world, masters and mistresses sometimes sent their enslaved seamstresses to Europe to learn the latest fashion trends; other seamstresses resided in colonial towns and they moved about freely as they traveled to the linen markets or to the homes of their clients.

Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century. Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, . Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006 - Art - 128 pages. During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not simply meant to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce.

Dangerous Liaisons : Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century

Dangerous Liaisons : Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century. by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. With their fragile surfaces and delicate proportions, tables, chairs, and other pieces of furniture enhanced the elite's indulgence in leisurely pursuits, fostering highly complex standards of etiquette and performance.

During the reigns of Louis XV (1723-74) and Louis XVI (1774-92), fashion and furniture were not simply meant to be beautiful but were also intended to arouse, attract, and seduce. Published in response to the critically acclaimed and hugely popular exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in the fall of 2004, Dangerous Liaisons focuses on fashion and its interplay with the paintings, furniture, and decorative arts of eighteenth-century France. Featuring beautiful color photographs of the exhibition’s installation, details of the garments, and supplementary historical material, the book demonstrates how the extravagant clothing of the period reiterated the splendor of Rococo and Neoclassical interiors.

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When I was young, I read a biography for children about the tragic Marie Antoinette, last queen of France, and found myself enthralled by the exquisite decorative arts of the time. It was a culture that viewed that every surface and substance was an opportunity to embellish and use. Sometimes the end results were overblown, but also managed to stay on the edge of good taste.

In 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City went through its extensive collections, and assembled a collection of rooms, clothing, everyday objects, and put them together to recreate a lost world of glamour and intrigue. Organized around a sensationalistic novella of manners and seduction, La Maison Petit by Jean-Francois de Bastide, the exhibit took the idea that the setting created by the aristocratic and well-to-do in eighteenth century France was not just to create a world of beauty, but one that was also meant to seduce the senses and aid in the game of sex and manners that undercut the entertainment and pastimes of the upper classes.

For the exhibition, the Met took the existing French rooms that were on exhibit in their Decorative Arts galleries. Filled with the items to be found in drawing rooms, then mannikins were dressed in the period clothing -- all from the museums' extensive collection in the Costume Institute -- and then assembled in scenes of daily life. The viewer, both in the exhibition and in the catalog then becomes the voyeur, peeking into this shadowy world of delights, and just a touch of decadence.

Each room of the exhibit depicts an aspect of aristocratic life, with figures engaging in conversation, getting dressed, making music, playing (or rather, cheating) at cards, two lovers being spied upon, among other activities. Along with the photographs, there are essays exploring the relationships between the aristocracy and the culture of leisure and excess that they created.

One thing that I noticed clearly in this book was something that most writers never seem to mention on works on aristocratic France, and it's a telling one. The sign of a 'true' aristocrat was the appearance of never having to lift a finger, and extreme grace while doing nearly nothing. The art of moving through a room wearing cumbersome clothing -- women sometimes had to enter a room sideways with the immense skirts that they wore -- navigating through tables and chairs that often had items of porcelain, and equal delicacy on them. A nouveau riche could be spotted by their hesitancy, and sometimes clumsiness in handling a fragile tea service or a lace sleeve dragging through an inkwell.

Another point that I really enjoyed was that these large rooms in the Met, which had before seemed too big and rather pompous, suddenly had scale with the addition of life-sized mannikins. Women with their hair dressed in towering styles appeared to fit right in, and the rooms instead became frames for sumptuous dresses and elegent courtiers in embroidered coats and vests. There were even replicas of pet dogs here an there, curled up on a chair or lolling at their mistress's feet.

It's a fascinating study, and this book is filled with the photographs from the actual exhibit, close ups of clothing and objects of art, engravings done with an eye for detail, and reproductions of paintings that helped to supply the poses and attitudes. The essays are well-written and insightful, and help to explain what is really happening in each room. At the end, there is a selected bibliography, a break down of each room -- detailing the origins of each object and the room itself -- and an index.

For any student of culture, art history, or someone who wants to see some truly beautiful creations, this is a book not to be missed. Fans of the filmed versions of Dangerous Liaisons will have a field day with this, and perhaps inspiration to do further explorations into a world where excess was the norm, and the art of beautiful living was carried to a zenith.

Five solid stars from me, and enthusiastically recommended.

Vetalol

I'm a Theatre Costume Design student. For me it's very important to be as historically accurate in my designs as possible. Sadly, there are more bad costume books out there than good ones. Since this book features pictures of actual historical costumes (costumes that were, at the point they were originally cut and sewn, physically worn), there's no doubt of its reliability as a source.
I highly recommend this book not only to people like myself, who need a great book for research and inspiration, but to anyone and everyone. The pictures are high quality and excellently posed and, of course, the clothes and furniture are beautiful. Then again, 18th century France? How can they not be?

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This book is cover to cover color photographs of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including interestingly arranged vignettes that display an array of eighteenth century fashion, architecture, and furniture. It's a beautiful book with wonderful descriptions of each scene depicted. And it offers a unique examination of the eighteenth century haute ton. If you're interested in fashion history, need a resource for costumes or scenery, or are just interested in the links between high society, fashion, furniture, and architecture, then this is an excellent book to invest in. Well worth the price.

Yellow Judge

Great and unique book. why do I like it?
1. Full length color pictures on almost every page showing different scenes from wealthy 18 century house daily life.
2. Mannequins wearing original dresses, male and female, showing the full picture how people were dressed in different situations.
3. Pictures of 18 century paintings to compare styles.
4. Interesting detailed writing throughout the whole book, giving real examples from French court life and much more.
5. Great quality paper.
6. Detailed explanation of origins of every dress from every picture, as well as furniture's, in the end of the book.

One of the best book of 18 century fashion I have seen so far.

Knights from Bernin

A visual feast of authentic, extant, 18th Century clothing displayed on figures in historic settings. This sort of display and photography of historic clothes has seldom been seen previously. It makes the clothes come to life. The text is informative and provides some new and interesting insights into the politics of clothing of this most glamorous century.

Jairani

Absolutely beautiful. I love the way the photos and images are set up. Very whimsical and artistic.

Mora

This book contains some very nice images of historic costumes and furnishings from the 18th Century, including detail views. It should be of value to costume designers, set designers, historians and re-enactors. The quality of the book makes it a great bargain.

This is a fabulous insight into 18th Century French society. As a costume designer, I found the inclusion of paintings from that period, intermixed with the museum settings to be of particular interest. The close-up photographs of details were also wonderful. The text was fascinating and very enjoyable reading. It's very often tempting to take things out of context according to one's own interests. This publication opens up an intricately woven world where fashion and furniture play an equally important role in the mores of a society.

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