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Back MatterSource: Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, Objects of Desire: VictorianArt at the Art Institute of Chicago (2005)Published by: The Art Institute of ChicagoStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4104477 .

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T he Art Institute of Chicago is celebrated

for its holdings of nineteenth-century art,

which contain many little-known masterpieces

created in Britain and America during the Victorian

age. In this special publication, a team of curators

and scholars surveys a wide range of the museum's

Victorian-era objects, capturing the period's

fascinating mix of historical revivalism and

stylistic innovation and illuminating a historical

moment in which art objects fulfilled the varied

desires of a wider range of consumers than ever

before. Both general readers and more specialized

audiences will enjoy the volume's mix of short

essays and a fully illustrated catalogue section,

which together offer a challenging, nuanced look at

the complexities of Victorian art and life.

Essay topics include the burgeoning Victorian

print market, an intimate sketchbook used by

the English painter Edward Burne-Jones, still-life

painting in nineteenth-century America, a

spectacularly restored Gothic-style wine cabinet,

and a rare album of pioneering photographs

compiled by an aristocratic family. The catalogue

section features highlights of the museum's

Victorian collection, including furniture, paintings,

works on paper, photographs, and textiles by

such noted artists as Julia Margaret Cameron,

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, John Everett Millais,

William Morris, and Edward John Poynter.

This publication is at once an introduction to

a remarkable group of objects and a window

onto an age of extraordinary social change and

fertile artistic production.

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