"Published for Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York" -- title page.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York, from 20 Sept. 2013 - 16 Feb. 2014 ; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 22 Mar. - 13 July 2014.
"Exhibition curators: Susan Weber and Julius Bryant" --title page verso.
Introduction: evaluations and reassessments of William Kent: a historiography / Susan Weber
Chronology
William Kent: a life / John Harris
The royal court, political culture, and the art of friendship, c.1685-1750 / Clarissa Campbell Orr
Kent's patrons / Catherine Arbuthnott
Kent and Italy / Steven Brindle
Kent the painter / Steven Brindle
Architectural and ornamental draftsman / John Harris
Town houses / David Watkin
From 'gusto' to 'Kentissime': Kent's designs for country houses, villas, and lodges / Julius Bryant
A note on 'Kent' frames / Julius Bryant
Kent and the Gothic Revival / Roger White
Royal commissions / Steven Brindle
The royal barge / Geoffrey Beard and John Hardy
Public commissions / Frank Salmon
Landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt
Garden buildings / John Harris
Kent as book illustrator / Nick Savage
The well of inspiration: sources for Kent's furniture designs / Susan Weber
Kent and the Georgian Baroque style in furniture: domestic commissions / Susan Weber
Kent's metalwork designs / Michael Snodin
Exempla vertutis: designs for sculpture / Julius Bryant
The legacy / Tim Knox.
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William Kent : designing Georgian Britain. ISBN 9780300196184. Published by Yale University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
