The Gilded Edge: Art of the Frame [ART]

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books Llc. New. 2000. Hardcover. 081182070X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- 203 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. Description" "The Gilded Edge is the first book to offer an in-depth look at the exquisite antique frames made in America over the last two centuries. Comprised of individual essays, this richly illustrated volume covers a diversity of topics. Unlike most art books that depict paintings without their frames, The Gilded Edge presents a plethora of sumptuous photographs that showcase frames in relation to the paintings they border — as works of art themselves. An accessible reference for admirers of fine and decorative art, this is an invaluable guide to making the already beautiful even more so." Features: "American Antique Frames: Rediscovering a Lost Art by Eli Wilner -- On the Framing of Pictures by Annette Blaugrund How the Edge Became a Center: The Rise of Interest in American Frames by Lisa Koenigsberg American Frame References from the Late Nineteenth Century: A Scattering of Attitudes by William H. Gerdts -- On Verso: Observations on the Back of the Frame by Kevin Flaherty On the Edge of Change: Artist Designed Frames from Whistler to Marin by Suzanne Smeaton Within Gilded Borders: The Frames of Stanford White by Nina Gray -- From Parlors to Pueblos: Frames for the American West, 1855-1925 by Sally Mills -- What’s In a Frame? by David Park Curry American Frames in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Carrie Rebora Barratt -- Marriages, Divorces, and Reconciliations: Challenges in Framing a Museum Collection by Nancy Rivard Shaw -- With a glossary, bibliography, and over 100 color illustrations" From Eli Wilner -- with a bonus offer--; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .