History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

This lavishly-illustrated book re-assesses the work of the nineteenth-century botanical painter Marianne North (1830-1890) and the purpose-built ga...

An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of Modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in Spring 2022...

William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is less well known. This collection, the ...

Thaddeus was a fi fteenth-century bishop of Cork who was honoured in both Ireland and Italy. He led a remarkable life he was made bishop twice, an...

Paul Delaroche was a hugely popular painter during his lifetime, first making his name with a series of historical scenes which enjoyed great accla...

Recreate some of the most famous masterpieces from the Impressionist movement in this colourful and challenging book.Have fun recognizing the works...

Recreate some of the most famous masterpieces from the Impressionist movement in this colourful and challenging book.Have fun recognizing the works...

Recreate some of the most famous masterpieces from the Impressionist movement in this colourful and challenging book.Have fun recognizing the works...

From Renoir to Monet to Gauguin French Impressionism was not only appreciated by Western collectors at the beginning of the 20th century it also ...

Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader is an anthology of literary and critical sources for the study of visual art and Ireland. It is a completely new v...

From the author of the bestselling phenomenon The Hare with Amber EyesAs you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know yo...

Explores Samuel Beckett's relation to painting and the visual imagination that informs his theatrical workBeckett was deeply engaged with the visua...

Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part m...

The extraordinary story behind Degass groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La.   Edgar Degass Miss La La at the...

Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (17601849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a ...

Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape h...

This is the first book in over a century to examine the important work of the watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker (18401875) and hi...

The rise of the Art Nouveau style across Continental Europe and the US in all forms of art was remarkable and is explored in this beautifully illus...

A major reassessment of the methods and meaning of impressionismAt pivotal moments in his career, Claude Monet would go out with a fellow artist, p...

Hermann Obrist (1863-1927) is regarded as one of the most influential founders and visionaries of the German 'Jugendstil' (art nouveau) movement. H...

This is a revised second edition of the best-selling book which incorporates new and additional material on the majority of the objects as well as ...

Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated ac...

Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist and imperialist und...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

Although there have been over 700 illustrators of Poes work over the past two centuries, this book chooses to examine only the best of them. Beginn...

This richly diverse study examines the evolving image and contested status of the artist in late nineteenth-century France through the lens of the ...

Forces elude perception. Since antiquity, however, perception itself (aisthesis) has been considered a force (dynamis). Thinking about perception m...

Th is book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the special pictorial and thematic characteristics of Cézannes portraiture practice, i...