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

In the 19th century plaster replicas of historical art objects represented the fulfilment of the old dream of a museum which contained the world's ...

This authoritative visual guide to the artistic materials and painting techniques of J. M. W. Turner brings to life the skills of one of the worlds...

'I perhaps owe it to flowers', wrote Claude Monet (1840-1926), that I became a painter. One of the leading figures of the Impressionist movement an...

Translation of fiction is always interpretation. This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English ...

Claude Monets Water Lilies are widely recognized as a celebration of nature and a call to visual experience. The skilled brushwork, vivid color, an...

Claude Monets Water Lilies are widely recognized as a celebration of nature and a call to visual experience. The skilled brushwork, vivid color, an...

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplic...

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by ...

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by ...

This fascinating book presents the rst biography of Helen Coombe, a woman admired not only for her artistic skill, but also for her intellect, pers...

The history of modernism has generally been written as a story of artists and their creations alongside the collectors, gallerists, and curators wh...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In the spirit of popular Rizzoli titles, including California Light and Hudson River School, At First Light chronicles a group of twenty-six artist...

A milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, and ...

The remarkable popularity of political likenesses in the Victorian period is the central theme of this book, which explores how politicians and pub...

A new edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews and reminiscences by Impressionist artists and their contemporaries. The Imp...

This project is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned the Declaration of Sent...

This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movements ...

One of the art worlds most recognizable and popular styles, Impressionism is also one of the most complex. In this sumptuous overview Norbert Wolf ...

Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of A Sunday on the Grande Jatte1884, one of the most recognizable and reproduced works of art in the wo...

This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unrea...

From Wild + Free, a wonderful collection of creative activities for parents, educators, and caregivers filled with engaging and fun ideas to help k...

'What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.' - W.H. DaviesWalking around London is one of life's great pleasures. Ther...

Anniversary publication of the Belvedere The Belvedere in Vienna epitomizes the changes that have taken place over the course of three centuries ...

How games create beauty and meaning, and how we can use them to explore the aesthetics of thought.Are games art? This question is a dominant mode o...

The Art Book of the Year, The TimesA Telegraph, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Economist, Tablet and Evening Standard Book of the YearA magnificent...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pio...

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration an...

Emille Gallé was one of the great names of the Art Nouveau movement in France, and founder of the famous École de Nancy. A polymath and committed s...

Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic...

Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Van Gogh Masterpieces of Art features all of the best-known works of one of the most famous artis...

'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radical...

The third volume of Arnold Schwartzman's photographic trilogy explores the world's most sensuous architecture of the 1890s and 1900s. The author ha...

William Bell Scotts screen, The Kings Quair, was commissioned by James Leathart, an important collector of Pre-Raphaelite art. The beautifully deco...

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life ...