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

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...

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trios co...

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imaginationNineteenth-Century Settler...

Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans Victorian artists, writers and suffragistsThis is the first book d...

Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, an...

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including w...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Edward Hopper (18821967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four year...

First published in 1952. An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background of Eli...

Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the preceden...

Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, an...

This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this his...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century Gothic villa and garden beside the Rive...

This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact...

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insi...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

This book expands the art historical perspective on arts connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies fro...

Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 18151850: ...