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

This is an outline of two hundred years of British caricature. It begins in the 1740s with a portrayal of Walpoles alleged bottom flagrantly exhibi...

How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of...

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domai...

Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and fami...

How social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century EuropeAs the French E...

Edward Lear loved birds. Of all the animals that sprang from his quirky imagination, birds held a special place, serving as the animal of choice fo...

Espying Heaven presents the first full-scale and full-colour survey of the achievement of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), the outstanding stained-...

Kempe offers a radical revaluation of the life, work and reputation of Charles Eamer Kempe (1837-1907), one of the most remarkable and influential ...

In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch t...

Among the masters of the nineteenth-century comic strip, Gustave Doré has been much neglected. For his illustrations to literary classics, he earne...

Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writi...

Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is commonly known about this world-ren...

'First Impressions' features over 70 works by some of the leading painter-etchers of the 1880s including Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran, William...

Meditations on the paradoxes generated around the ending of western slavery. In his tour-de-force Blind Memory, Marcus Wood read the visual archive...

Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age offers a stunning new look at late-nineteenth-century American art, and demonstrates the profo...

J.P. Bryan, whose monumental collection of Texas art is the source of this traveling exhibition, determined that he would collect only those artist...

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembra...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston houses a world-famous collection of European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoirs Dance a...

Challenging cliches of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings ...