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

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...

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...