American kasten the Dutch-style cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800 Peter M. Kenny, Frances Gruber Safford, Gilbert T. Vincent

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Peter M.

Contributor:

Safford, Frances Gruber

Vincent, Gilbert Tapley, 1946-

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing--Exhibitions.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.).

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). American Wing.

Cupboards--New York (State)--History--17th century--Exhibitions.

Cupboards.

Cupboards--New York (State)--History--18th century--Exhibitions.

Furniture, Dutch colonial--New York (State)--Exhibitions.

Furniture, Dutch colonial.

Furniture, Baroque--New York (State)--Exhibitions.

Furniture, Baroque.

Cupboards--New Jersey--History--17th century--Exhibitions.

Cupboards--New Jersey--History--18th century--Exhibitions.

Furniture, Dutch colonial--New Jersey--Exhibitions.

Furniture, Baroque--New Jersey--Exhibitions.

New Jersey.

New York (State).

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 80 pages) illustrations (some color), map

Place of Publication:

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art [1991]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

This volume is published in conjunction with a 1991 exhibition of the same name. It focuses on the American incarnation of large cupboards called kasten, examples of a furniture form recognized since the beginning of the twentieth century as quintessentially Dutch in inspiration. Beginning in 1909, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has steadily acquired individual New York pieces by gift or purchase, and now owns one of the most comprehensive representations of the region's furniture. When this book was written, hardly any scholarly work had been done on kasten. Seventeenth-century joined oak furniture from the New York area was virtually unknown; the four rare examples discussed in the book provide a welcome point of comparison with better-known case furniture from New England. While the later Baroque-style kasten from the New York area are more familiar, these distinctive case pieces, too, despite the fact that they number well into the hundreds, had not been comprehensively studied. Additionally, the names of only two makers were known, examples from Connecticut had never been discussed, and a viable chronology and analyses of regional characteristics had been published only piecemeal. Confusion existed even over the terminology applied to this distinctive furniture form. The book's examination of the American kast is intended to fill a sizable gap in the study of American furniture

Notes:

Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 19 - April 7, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (page 79)

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Kenny, Peter M. American kasten

OCLC:

551300175