{"product_id":"introduction-to-nineteenth-century-art","title":"Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing the tools of the \"new\" art history (feminism, Marxism, social context, etc.) \u003cem\u003eAn Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art\u003c\/em\u003e offers a richly textured, yet clear and logical, introduction to nineteenth-century art and culture. This textbook will provide readers with a basic historical framework of the period and the critical tools for interpreting and situating new and unfamiliar works of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichelle Facos goes beyond existing histories of nineteenth-century art, which often focus solely on France, Britain, and the United States, to incorporate artists and artworks from Scandinavia, Germany, and Eastern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book expertly balances its coverage of trends and individual artworks: where the salient trends are clear, trend-setting works are highlighted, and the complexity of the period is respected by situating all works in their proper social and historical context. In this way, the student reader achieves a more nuanced understanding of the way in which the story of nineteenth-century art is the story of the ways in which artists and society grappled with the problem of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey pedagogical features include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eData boxes provide statistics, timelines, charts, and historical information about the period to further situate artworks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eText boxes highlight extracts from original sources, citing the ideas of artists and their contemporaries, including historians, philosophers, critics, and theorists, to place artists and works in the broader context of aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, social, and political conditions in which artists were working.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeautifully illustrated with over 250 color images.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMargin notes and glossary definitions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnline resources at \u003cstrong\u003ewww.routledge.com\/textbooks\/facos\u003c\/strong\u003e with access to a wealth of information, including original documents pertaining to artworks discussed in the textbook, contemporary criticism, timelines and maps to enrich your understanding of the period and allow for further comparison and exploration.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters take a thematic approach combined within an overarching chronology and more detailed discussions of individual works are always put in the context of the broader social picture, thus providing students with a sense of art history as a controversial and alive arena of study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichelle Facos\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches art history at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research explores the changing relationship between artists and society since the Enlightenment and issues of identity. Prior publications include \u003cem\u003eNationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Painting of the 1890s\u003c\/em\u003e (1998), \u003cem\u003eArt, Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited with Sharon Hirsh (2003), and \u003cem\u003eSymbolist Art in Context\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54234142867800,"sku":"9780415780704","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415780704.jpg?v=1777244422","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/introduction-to-nineteenth-century-art","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}