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

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. ...

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...

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth ...

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual d...

First published in 1999, this book asks what kind of advice was available to somebody wishing to embark upon oil painting in England between 1850 a...

Before Modernism, narrative painting was one of the most acclaimed and challenging modes of picture-making in Western art, yet by the early twentie...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to ...

Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London offers a fresh perspective on Social Realism by contextualizing it within the burgeoning new med...

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fameor second lifefr...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized ...

A revolutionary figure throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossettis work provides a distinctly revolutionary lens through which the Victorian per...

This book examines Théodore Géricaults images of black men, women and children who suffered slaverys trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth ...

This book delivers an in-depth analysis of Hercule Florence, who is virtually unknown despite being among the worlds photographic pioneers. Based o...

First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this perio...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

In Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century oriental bodies, in...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

In the era of the Anthropocene, artists and scientists are facing a new paradigm in their attempts to represent nature. Seven chapters, which focus...

This title was first published in 2003. The essay collection explores the conjunctions of nation, gender, and visual representation in a number of ...

An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended ...