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

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trios co...

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imaginationNineteenth-Century Settler...

Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans Victorian artists, writers and suffragistsThis is the first book d...

Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, an...

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including w...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

Clothes define people. A persons attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, persona...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Edward Hopper (18821967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four year...

First published in 1952. An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background of Eli...

Hailed the Prince of the Impressionists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the preceden...

Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, an...

This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this his...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century Gothic villa and garden beside the Rive...

This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact...

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insi...

This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Th...

This book expands the art historical perspective on arts connection to anatomy and medicine, bringing together in one text several case studies fro...

Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 18151850: ...