The Rococo Age: Art and Civilization of the 18th Century. Schoenberger/Soenher

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The Rococo Age: Art and Civilization of the 18th Century. Schoenberger/Soenher:
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The Rococo Age: Art and Civilization of the 18th CenturyArno Schonberger/Halldor Soenherwith the collaboration of Theodor Mullertranslated from the German by Daphne Woodward

New York:McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1963. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good; endpapers show discoloration (see photos); interior clean, unmarked; some shelf wear; binding tight and square, starting at front (see photo). Dust Jacket Condition: Good; some tears and rubbing, foxing on inside of d.j. (see photos). Folio - over 12\" tall.First US Edition; Second Impressionof the copyrighted Thames and Hudson London edition 1960). Translated from the first German edition, 1959. Printed in Germany. Extensive survey of the Rococo Age based on the exhibition Die Welt des Rokoko.
Ex Libris Monroe Wheeler/Anatole PohorilenkoMonroe Wheeler (1899-1988),former Director of Exhibitions and Publications at The Museum of Modern Art (1939-1967) and a personal friend of John Szarkowski,was born in Evanston, Illinois. In the 1920s, before his long and active career at the Museum, Wheeler worked and lived in France, co-founding the publishing firm Harrison of Paris.His relationship with longtime companion Glenway Wescott lasted from 1919 until Wescott\'s death in 1987.Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was an American novelist during the 1920s and 1930s and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s.Wheeler\'s relationship with the photographer George Platt Lynes began in 1927 and the three lived and travelled together until GPL\'s death in 1955. The triangular relationship was documented and beautifully told in the book, When We Were Three (Arena Editions, 1998), written by Anatole Pohorilenko.