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

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

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

Arguably the most important movement in the history of modern art, Impressionism changed the way audiences perceived painting. This elegant and p...

A fuller, richer picture of an artist at the height of his powers Thomas Gainsboroughs (172788) London years, from 1774 to 1788, were the pinnacle ...

Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in wh...

Flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (17591840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings ...

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 18251878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a ...

This book explores the visual and literary culture of transforming perceptions of children and childhood in France during the nineteenth century. C...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesfrom diaries and poe...

In 1874 the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, shocking the art world with a radical new style of painting. Capturing contemporary sub...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

Vincent Van Gogh, even with his mental illness, poverty, isolation, and persistent failure, reflected compassion remarkable for his own life of rej...

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans provides a window into the cultural changes taking place in the United States from the turn of the twentieth c...

Written by Marilyn Martin, a former director of the South African National Gallery, Between Dreams and Realities is based on extensive research and...

The diaries and letters of siblings Joanna and George Boyce, and Joanna's husband Henry Wells (published as The Boyce Papers in 2019) give us a rar...

In this book, Natasha Ruiz-Gómez delves into an extraordinary collection of pathological drawings, photographs, sculptures, and casts created by ne...

Through meticulous scholarship and fine writerly craft, Gregory offers a riveting story of two creative geniuses at work. Slavonic and East Europea...

Générations raconte lhistoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de lart ...

Générations raconte lhistoire des Sobey, famille visionnaire de la Nouvelle-Écosse qui, depuis trois générations, veille à la valorisation de lart ...

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these...

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook.In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it ...

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawn suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the c...

Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany is the first English-language examination of this German impressionist painter whose long life and ca...

Harness the beauty of the natural world to create unique textile art pieces. Learn how to create beautiful textile art inspired by details in natur...

The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable sp...

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his st...

As inviting and sensual as a warm summer day, this opulent exhibition catalog offers a deep appreciation of Klimt's ornate, exquisitely detailed, a...

Text in English & German. The beautiful Lau, the heroine of Eduard Mörike's story, is only half a water spirit -- her mother was a human woman,...

The theme of the book is the interpretation of Italian Renaissance art by French artists as of the final decades of the 18th century. In particular...

One of the difficulties about how our minds work is that we often cannot quite clearly see or know what is inside us. Art therapists have a longsta...

In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among Chinas educated elites began to use touch...

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, suc...

In this book, three famous, late 19th-century artists take centre stage: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Henri Le Faucon...

Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...

This anthology outlines a research project at the Angermuseum in Erfurt and forms the start of a new assessment of the landscape painter Friedrich ...