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

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are int...

This is a fascinating look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement. Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the h...

With contributions from outstanding specialists in glass art and East Asian art history, this edited volume opens a cross-cultural dialogue on the ...

It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the...

Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early...

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, ...

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its image...

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries   Still life played an imp...

She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden or Copenh...

Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innova...

This book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a sign...

An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevo...

When all that was solid melted into air... For decades, intellectuals from Benjamin to Bourdieu, Berman to Foucault, have been in thrall to this vi...

An adventurous collection that examines how the design field has consistently failed to attract and support Black professionalsand how to create an...

A beautifully produced facsimile of the last known intact sketchbook by J. M. W. Turner J. M. W. Turner (17751851) seldom left home without a sketc...

'I have tried to formulate a criterion by which good pots may be judged . . . a pot in order to be good should be a genuine expression of life. It ...

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science a...

The celebrated Ashcan School artist John Sloan produced a distinctive body of work depicting life on the rooftops of early twentieth-century New Yo...

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes ...