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

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 ...

A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonards paintings known as the figures de fantaisie, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagi...

Turner's sketchbooks were private things which he kept to himself. They might live for some time, rolled up in his coat pockets or travel bags, to ...

This is the third of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual c...

The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19t...

In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was finally decriminalised - an entire century after the death penalty was abolished for s...

This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing...

This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue surveys the strength and range of British art from 1789 to 1918, while charting changes and development...

Robin Veder''s The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American moderni...

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume explores the remarkable relationship b...

Winterthur Museum is world renowned for its decorative arts collections and its exceptional educational programs. Adapted from the training materia...

A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic, but it has never been explored like...

Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, n...

With more than 26,000 works, the Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. collection of photographs is the largest single group of artworks in any medium at the J. P...

Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, ...

The odore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Bar...

The Cleghorn Collection reproduces more than 200 of the drawings from the Cleghorn Collection in colour, for the first time. These include drawings...

Over the past thirty years, our ideas about the cultures of Empire have been transformed. Contemporary reflections on Empire by writers and artists...