Mendgen, Eva (editor) — In Perfect Harmony: Bild + Rahmen, 1850-1920

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 1995. Hardcover. Red cloth with yellowish color pictorial dustjacket, 280 pp.; 234 color and bw plates and figures. Text is in German. Issued in conjunction with several 1995 exhibitions considering art and frames. Studies the framing of artworks--which some artists considered the final necessary step in completing a piece; Looks at the form and function of frames within the following scnes: Historicism, The Victorians, Secession, Impressionism, Les XX, and 20th Century; Includes works by Arnold Bocklin, Franz von Stuck, Gustav Klimt, James MacNeill Whistler, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Jan Toorop, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and many others; An illuminating title. VG/VG .