Resources

Further Study

Unnamed Pattern, Unknown Maker, c. 1880.

Books

Aslin, Elizabeth. The Aesthetic Movement: Prelude to Art Nouveau. Excalibur Books, 1981.

Bolger, Burke. In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement. 1st ed., Rizzoli, 1986.

Burnham, Helen, et al. Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan. MFA Publications, 2014.

Calloway, Stephen, et al. The Cult of Beauty: the Victorian Avant-Garde 1860-1900. V & A Publishing, 2011.

Cook, Clarence. The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881.

Dresser, Christopher. Dressers Victorian Ornamentation: 150 Designs. Dover Publications, 2008.

Dresser, Christopher. Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882.

Dresser, Christopher. Principles of Victorian Decorative Design. Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1873.

Gere, Charlotte. Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement. 1st ed., V & A Publishing, 2010.

Gere, Charlotte, and Lesley Hoskins. The House Beautiful: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior; Lund Humphries, 2000.

Godwin, Edward William, et al. E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer. Yale University Press, 1999.

Hamilton, Walter. The Aesthetic Movement in England, 1882.

Henrywood, R. K. Staffordshire Potters, 1781-1900: a Comprehensive List Assembled from Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks. Antique Collectors Club, 2002.

Jones, Owen. The Grammar of Ornament: a Visual Reference of Form and Colour in Architecture and the Decorative Arts. Bernard Quaritch, 1868.

Lambourne, Lionel. The Aesthetic Movement. Phaidon, 2011.

Lambourne, Lionel. Japonisme: Cultural Crossing between Japan and the West. Phaidon, 2005.

Petrie, Kevin. Ceramic Transfer Printing. American Ceramic Society, 2011.

Pisano, Ronald G., et al. The Tile Club and the Aesthetic Movement in America. H.N. Abrams, in Association with the Museum at Stony Brook, 1999.

Prettejohn, Elizabeth. After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England. Manchester University Press, 1999.

Snodin, Michael, and John Styles. Design and Decorative Arts: Britain, 1500-1900. V & A Publications., 2001.

Staley, Allen. The New Painting of the 1860s: between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement. Yale University Press, 2011.

Whiteway, Michael. Shock of the Old: Christopher Dressers Design Revolution. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in Association with V & A Publications, 2004.

Wichmann, Siegfried. Japonisme: the Japanese Influence on Western Art since 1858. Thames and Hudson, 2007.

Yamada Chisaburō, and Ōmori Tatsuji. Japonisme in Art: an International Symposium. Committee for the Year 2001, 1980.

Zukowski, Karen. Creating the Artful Home: the Aesthetic Movement. 1st ed., Gibbs Smith, 2006.

Articles

Bradley, Eric. “Ceramic Decorative Arts of the Aesthetic Movement Returns Big in 2012.” Antique Trader, 20 Apr. 2012, www.antiquetrader.com/antiques/ceramic-decorative-art-of-the-aesthetic-movement/.

Hansen, Joan Maria. “Howell & James of London: Retailing the Aesthetic Movement.” The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, no. 34, 2010, pp. 20–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41809422. 

O'Brien, Kevin H. F. “‘The House Beautiful’: A Reconstruction of Oscar Wilde's American Lecture.” Victorian Studies, vol. 17, no. 4, 1974, pp. 395–418. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3826289.

Stankiewicz, Mary Ann. “From the Aesthetic Movement to the Arts and Crafts Movement.” Studies in Art Education, vol. 33, no. 3, 1992, p. 165., doi:10.2307/1320898.

Ford & Riley, "Tunis," c. 1882-1893.

Alfred Fenton & Co., "Cashmere," c. 1887-1907.

Websites

“Aestheticism and Decadence.” The British Library, The British Library, 17 Feb. 2014, www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/aestheticism-and-decadence.

“Color Printed and Multi-Color Printed Earthenware.” Printed British Pottery & Porcelain, 29 Aug. 2017, printedbritishpotteryandporcelain.com/pottery/ceramics/color-printed-multi-color-printed-earthenware.

“Stoke-on-Trent, Pottery and Ceramics, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, Longton.” Stoke-on-Trent, Pottery and Ceramics, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, Longton, thepotteries.org/.

“The Aesthetic Movement.” Smarthistory, smarthistory.org/the-aesthetic-movement/

“The Aesthetic Movement Overview.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/movement-aesthetic-art.htm.

“The Pre-Raphaelites.” The British Library, The British Library, 14 Feb. 2014, www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-pre-raphaelites.

“Transferware Collectors Club - Antique Transferware Including Blue and White Pottery, Staffordshire Pottery, Pearlware...” Transferware Collectors Club - Antique Transferware Including Blue and White Pottery, Staffordshire Pottery, Pearlware..., www.transcollectorsclub.org/.

“V&A · An Introduction to the Aesthetic Movement.” Victoria and Albert Museum, www.vam.ac.uk/articles/an-introduction-to-the-aesthetic-movement.