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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchners intention that they belong together, over the years some ...

The Kisokaid route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the countrys then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be inst...

A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world.Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted...

This book takes a timely look at how Scotlands national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotl...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of t...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photographys vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninete...

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensi...

This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has r...

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a sym...

En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul...

From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resista...

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth exami...

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

Friedrich Preller der Ältere prägte mit seinen mythologischen Landschaften das Ideal einer am klassischen Kanon orientierten Kunstauffassung des 19...

An authoritative analysis of the drawings (including watercolours and pastels) of twenty leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in on...

Around 100 of the most beautiful prints from the heyday of Japanese woodblock printing are shown in this first publication featuring a previously l...

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emi...

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary...

The New York jewellery firm of Marcus & Co. (18921942) created exceptional examples of Art Nouveau and Art Deco jewellery for an art-loving, we...

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair...

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Salas personal style, along with his innovations in form, influe...

Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were i...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugos n...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nations demise as a world power, this stud...

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

In 1901, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens proclaimed in a letter to Will Low, Healthis the thing! Though recently diagnosed with intestinal canc...

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies, the art produced by Victorian women has b...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

This title was first published in 2000. London in the nineteenth century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, t...

The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the S...

Focusing on images of or produced by well-to-do nineteenth-century European women, this volume explores genteel femininity as resistant to easy cod...

Over the last forty years, renewed interest in the career of Henry Ossawa Tanner (18591937) has vaulted him into expanding scholarly discourse on A...