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

Vivid descriptions provide an insight into his painterly work: At the moment I am immersed in my work with the clear-sightedness or blindness of a...

Mary Greensted tells the story of the birth and development of the arts and craft movement in Britain with the help of numerous illustrations showi...

Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a compr...

The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and painting with tremendous energy nearly everything he saw, and this book...

This is the story of Marianne North, an unmarried middle-aged Victorian lady of comfortable means, set off in 1871 on her first expedition to make ...

Published in conjunction with the second major exhibition The Museum of Modern Art is organizing for the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, V...

Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) is revered as one of the most eminent exponents of symbolism and an inventive painter of alpine motifs of the fin de...

Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night.  Rodin's The Thinker. Monets water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a we...

George Baxter (1804-1867) was a pioneer in advancing the art of colour printing. A perfectionist, Baxter not only engraved but also examined the pr...

A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolu...

This book focuses on a group of fascinating, multi-faceted 19th century objects from the field of the decorative and applied arts: the ornamented t...

*Detailed assessment of a complex subject, updated to include 300 new color illustrations*While French furniture dominates this work of reference, ...

A comprehensive new assessment of the South Seas works of American painter, muralist, and stained-glass artist John La Farge, published on the 100t...

This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic p...

The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of...

Whistler was one of the most original, if also tirelessly self-promoting artists of the later 19th century. After his disastrous run-in with John R...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852 - 1913), a group of historians and writers reflect on various ...

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. ''As devourable as a thriller......

A woman once rang me up and said, Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a striking illustr...

In 1921/22 Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exh...

From the visually seductive E-Type Jaguar to Giles Gilbert Scott's iconic red telephone boxes, British design is distinguished by a combination of ...

A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this ...

Focusing specifically on portraiture as a genre, this volume challenges scholarly assumptions that regard interior spaces as uniquely feminine. Con...

J.M.W. Turner's elegant pencil sketches and watercolours of Venice are so poignant and evocative that the gentle sound of water lapping against gon...

Delve deeper into the work of the intriguing and iconic artist Aubrey Beardsley with this beautiful reissue of his classic 1897 illustrated book, c...

A groundbreaking comparison of two titans of American art Winslow Homer (18361910) and Frederic Remington (18611909) represent a distinct artistic ...

An engaging look at one of the central motifs in the work of the great 19th-century painter Widely considered Britains greatest painter, Joseph Mal...

The untold story of a radical approach to the teaching of sculpture at Saint Martin''s School of Art. In 1969, four tutors at Saint Martin''s Sc...

Biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites whose letters give a vivid insight into the dramas of their personal life. ...

Demonstrates, through an investigation of material culture, the complexity of the relationship between rulers and ruled in early nineteenth-century...

A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist  Frederic Church (18261900), on...

A new look at George Caleb Bingham''s iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Miss...

Landscape art in the early 19th century was guided by two rival concepts: the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures and visual delight,...

The core of the Clark''s collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, I like all kinds of art if it is good o...

A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half of the 19th century, Paris a...

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art-the radically innovative decade of the ...

A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner''s early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book...

William Bouguereau, the most popular artist in nineteenth-century France, is rapidly becoming one of the most popular realist artists of all time. ...

This book uses the busts on the Chantrey Wall in the Ashmolean Museum to give an introduction to the remarkable career of Francis Chantrey (1781-18...

A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is widely regarded as ...