Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that ...
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Between 1790 and 1840, millions of middle-class Americans throughout the nation encountered "Fancy": they rode in a Fancy sleigh, dressed up in Fancy clothes, blew their noses in Fancy handkerchiefs, bought goods at Fancy shops, ate at Fancy tables on Fancy dishes, and slept under Fancy coverlets. Not just fancy but Fancy: an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon born out of new and enlightened ways of seeing, understanding, and responding to the surrounding world. Fancy expressed itself in just about everything that pleased the senses; generally colorful and boldly patterned, it elicited delight, awe, surprise, whim, and caprice. Whether experienced in the form of painted surfaces, kaleidoscopic quilts, or imaginary landscapes, Fancy engaged the emotions and expanded the imagination, expressing the core of human fancy. "American Fancy" offers an appropriately fantastic experience of this uniquely American sensibility. Author Sumpter Priddy has assembled and produced an original oeuvre in the field of decorative arts, going beyond the traditional modes of furniture analysis, which concentrate on style, history, and construction, to consider the perceptual and emotional responses through which the original users and viewers would have interacted with these material things. To this end he employs the interpretive methods used in the fields of literature, fine arts, philosophy and even psychology. Rich, fully illustrated, wondrously researched, and bound in a cover that imitates a typical Fancy pattern, "American Fancy" does its marvelous subject true.
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Publisher:
Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
Published:
2004
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17357557051
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
Published:
2004
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17335403125
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Very Good. No Jacket. Oversize. Some shelf rubbing to bottom edge of front cover. Lower left edge of spine label very slightly rubbed. Book in a clear mylar protector.
Publisher:
Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
Published:
2004
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17848078267
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Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Signed by author on title page. In protective mylar cover. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Publisher:
Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
Published:
2004
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16717150903
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0972435395. Large format hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, signed by the author on the title page, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, the original glassine jacket has some rubbing as is usual for this type of jacket, "a book about a specific group of objects that are spiritually linked through their association with an early nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon known then and now simply as Fancy, " packed with illustrations and includes a ribbon bookmark and a Select Bibliography; 267 pages; Signed by Author.
Publisher:
Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
Published:
2004
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17839020877
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Publisher:
Chipstone Foundation/Milwaukee Art Museum
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2004
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English
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17959710901
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