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

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power...

Discover the extraordinary woman behind one of the most famous images of motherhood in Western art Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and B...

In January 2006 a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged...

The American realist artist John Sloan (1871–1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of...

The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 1873) is one of the most celebrated paintings of the nineteenth century. It was acquired by the...

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the ...

Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion....

Women – as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women – haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one...

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

The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and painting with tremendous energy nearly everything he saw, and this book...

Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night.  Rodin's The Thinker. Monet’s water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a w...

This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic p...

Whistler was one of the most original, if also tirelessly self-promoting artists of the later 19th century. After his disastrous run-in with John R...

A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this ...

Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Con...

An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Ma...

Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life. ...

A new look at George Caleb Bingham’s iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) moved to Misso...

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade of the ...

Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story....

This book uses the busts on the Chantrey Wall in the Ashmolean Museum to give an introduction to the remarkable career of Francis Chantrey (1781-18...

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is widely regarded as ...

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard’s paintings known as the ’figures de fantaisie’, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Im...

A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of po...

Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, n...