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

Utagawa Hiroshige (17971858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e ...

This volume examines the criticism of five influential British writers on the visual artsJohn Ruskin, Walter Pater, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Sir ...

A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished p...

Within a few years of the invention of the first commercially successful photography process in 1839, American slaveholders had already begun commi...

This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation relating to s...

Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts, Karen Brown sheds new light on how collaborations and differences between member...

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...

Were late nineteenth-century gender boundaries as restrictive as is generally held? In Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings...

Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patro...

Thomas Coles influence after his death, through both the finished and unfinished paintings that remained in his self-designed studio, was truly pro...

Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. T...