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

This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions established by later interpre...

Looking at the newspaper clipping from 1870 to 1930 in art and science, this study examines knowledge production and its visual and material backgr...

Art Nouveau thrived from the late 1890s through the First World War. The international design movement reveled in curvilinear forms and both playfu...

“Fascinating and lucid . . . a stunningly illustrated and illuminating life of a singular painter.” — Sue Roe, Wall Street Journal “Not just anothe...

American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on A...

By the end of the Second World War, Germany was in ruins and its Jewish population so gravely diminished that a rich cultural life seemed unthinkab...

This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth ...

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 1847–1890), ...

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices. The first in-depth exami...

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, one of the most sought-after and productive artists of the 19th century, developed various types of portraits in strategi...

The nineteenth century in France witnessed the emergence of the structures of the modern art market that remain until this day. This book examines ...