{"product_id":"strut-laura-l-vookles-9780943651453","title":"Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art explores our fascination with that most glamorous of birds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe peacock, strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green plumage, symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of painting and sculpture, in books, and on clothes that swirl and shine like the iridescent bird itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntrigued by the exotic art of Asia that prized and portrayed the peacock and its trail of an emblazoned train of feathers, Western artists in the 1890s chose the bird as a symbol of design on their canvases and for objects in the home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough striking Gilded Age peacock imagery escalated in fin-de-si鐵le French Art Nouveau and the Art Deco of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression of 1929 quelled the idea of beauty for its own sake; art now needed to be more than beautiful-- it should serve, first, the social good. While in the aftermath of the Depression and a world war Americans of the '50s looked, again, for luxury, modernism gave rise to the ethos \"Less is more.\" The peacock's profile changed once more, this time into a symbol of drama and decadence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday, as the contemporary art world renews its embrace of visual beauty, the peacock in form, color, and association resurges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first major scholarly examination of the peacock in visual arts in the United States, England, and France, from the nineteenth century's Gilded Age to today, Strut, organized by the Hudson River Museum, has assembled paintings and decorative arts from museums and private collections throughout the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributing essays to the catalog Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art by Bartholomew F. Bland; Penelope Fritzer; Kirsten M. Jensen; Melissa J. Martens; Ellen E. Roberts; and Laura L. Vookles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura L. Vookles, Hudson River Museum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 094365145X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780943651453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.80h x 9.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Laura L. Vookles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072889188607,"sku":"9780943651453","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87c43688-b418-4247-98a5-f6163d0edfe8.jpg?v=1685444536","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strut-laura-l-vookles-9780943651453","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}