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

Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of t...

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied - a German naturalist - and his entourage set ...

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, ...

Early American painter Gilbert Stuart has long been mistakenly represented as a hard-drinking rogue, habitual liar, and inexplicable financial fail...

Darwin and Theories of Aesthetics and Cultural History is a significant contribution to the fields of theory, Darwin studies, and cultural history....

In this classic book, first published in 1968, David Pye assesses the importance of craft in a mechanised age. At a time when many questioned the ...

Frederic Church, the acclaimed Hudson River School artist, first traveled to Maine in 1850. Over the next decades Church ventured repeatedly from h...

Gustave Caillebotte was more than a painter: he collected and researched postage stamps; designed and built yachts; administered and participated i...

A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique...

Throughout the silent-feature era, American artists and intellectuals routinely described cinema as a force of global communion, a universal langua...

A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle ParisBoth the Edo period (16031868) in Japan...

From fairy-tale castles and baronial halls to dungeons, torture and horror, the Gothic style has been incredibly influential. Indeed the cultural h...

The Swiss-born artist Albert von Keller (1844-1920) was a founding member of the Munich Secession, one of Europe's most influential artists' associ...

From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (18981972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and ma...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

This book tells the story of Yldz Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is...

Ernst Haeckel (18341919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flor...

Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar ...

Images of crosses, the Virgin Mary, and Christ, among other devotional objects, pervaded nearly every aspect of public and private life in early mo...

In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the B...

Mariano Fortuny was a visionary designer and artist best known today for his rich, innovative textiles and opulent dress designs, he was also an a...

Told with exceptional scholarship, wit and humanity; the book itself is a ravishingly beautiful object - World of Interiors   Geraghty excels in ...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav Klimt is well known for his golden masterpieces full of sumptuous ornamentation, as well as his incredible portrait...

Renowned Austrian artist Gustav is well known for his richly decorative commissioned artwork and murals, but he also produced a number of beautiful...

Vincent van Gogh is famous throughout the world for his stunning artworks. His extensive portfolio exceeds some 2,000 pieces of art, of which 800 w...

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential artists in modern history. His extensive portfolio exceeds some 2,000 artworks, of which...

Edgar Degas, born in 1834, was regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Renowned for his paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings, it is...

Produced in partnership with The Courtauld gallery, this calendar showcases a selection of the many radical and moody views of the Thames painted b...

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In...

This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victo...

Produced in partnership with The National Gallery, this exquisite mini wall calendar will take you on a journey through the most significant artwor...

An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (17171797) was a collector...

New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-Europ...

Objects of Liberty explores the prevalence of souvenirs in British womens writing during the French Revolution and Napoleonic era. It argues that w...