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

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 ...