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

This book takes a timely look at how Scotland’s national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scot...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been ...

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of t...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninet...

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensi...

This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has r...

The first substantial Mexican colonial art historiography in English, this book examines the origin of the study of colonial art in Mexico as a sym...

En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul...

From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resista...

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

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emi...

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary...

Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair...

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Sala’s personal style, along with his innovations in form, influ...

Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were i...

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...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation’s demise as a world power, this stu...

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

Despite the increased visibility of Victorian women artists in museum exhibitions and historical studies, the art produced by Victorian women has b...

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the fi...

This title was first published in 2000. London in the nineteenth century saw the founding of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, t...