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Published on: 2004-05-02
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Original language: English

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. PEM Curators at PEM Finamore has organized more than 15 exhibitions of American and European painting and decorative arts at PEM. He holds a BA from Vassar College where he studied ... PEM Peabody Essex Museum Work continues on the museum's expansion project part of a $650 million Advancement Campaign that includes new galleries education spaces a restaurant and more. Kovels.com Site Map Search By Relevance All words Any words Exact Phrase Enlarge Text. A A A Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum collects and preserves art presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education.
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