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

In The Nazarenes, Cordula Grewe presents a timely revisionist account of the Nazarenes, a group of early nineteenth-century German artists who have...

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

In The Urban Scene, Carmenita Higginbotham offers a significant and innovative reassessment of the ways in which race is deployed and read in inter...

Truth to Nature, a rallying cry for those artists and critics aiming to reform art-making practices in Great Britain over the course of the ninetee...

First exhibited at the Stuyvesant Hall in New York in 1851, Emanuel Leutzes Washington Crossing the Delaware captured the imagination of many Ameri...

The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colorist, a remarkable draftsman, a...

The man behind the paintings: the extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artistsJ. M. W....

Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a g...

The English Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) was hailed as the painter of light for his brilliantly colored landscapes and ...

A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticisms most influential and elusive paintersEugène Delacroix (17981863) was a ...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...

The author's personal, beautiful, and discursive style will appeal to enthusiasts of art and English literature. Library Journal One of the grea...

This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, explores and celebrates Turners lifelong fascination with...

A revealing new portrait of J.M.W. Turner and the man behind the art, uncovering fresh material and shedding new light on this complicated and secr...

Alan Sorrells early ambition was to be a painter of imaginative narrative pictures, often in the form of mural decorations. In this he was successf...

The first half of this book is a detailed exploration of Turner's life and background. It begins with his early years in London, where he exhibited...

This is the story of the Reeves Collection of botanical paintings, the result of one man's single-minded dedication to commissioning pictures and g...

James Tissot is best known for his paintings of fashionable women and society life in the late 19th century. Born in Nantes, France, he trained at ...

A new, fully revised edition of the bestselling publication exploring J.M.W. Turner's spectacular array of watercolours.  The lifetime of J.M...

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe'...

Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Julia Pastrana (18341860) was a gifted singer, musician and dancer who could converse in English, Spanish and French. She ...

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power...

Pont-Aven has lent its name to one of the most famous schools of painting in modern art and is now automatically associated with Paul Gauguin and É...

Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a s...

This monograph brings together pivotal sculptures by two of the most important American sculptors of the 20th Century, whose pioneering work with m...

Inspired by the grandeur of the Rockies and the Alps, American and European artists strove to capture their power in paint. In the mid-19th century...

A bold and richly illustrated survey of the traditions and stylistic evolution of landscape painting in the Americas As nations in the Americas g...

In January 2006 a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged...

The American realist artist John Sloan (18711951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of ...

An exceptional iconographic exhibition, curated by the famous art critic Germano Celant, which explores the intimate relationship between art and f...

The Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802 1873) is one of the most celebrated paintings of the nineteenth century. It was acquired by the...

For Henri Matisse, drawing was an exercise as personal as it was essential to his art. These black and white and gently colored sketches allow the ...

Lord Hastings's journal of his travels from Calcutta to the Punjab in 18141815 records the events and views of this journey accompanied by 200 larg...

Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion....

Women - as warriors, workers, mothers, sensual women,even absent women - haunt 19th- and 20th-century Western painting: their representation is one...

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess painting, sculpture, photography, illustration an...

Published 150 years following Hunter''s first success at the Royal Academy. Colin Hunter (1841-1904) was a hugely successful Scottish Victorian a...