Research Catalog

Title

Nineteenth century art : a critical history / Stephen F. Eisenman ; [with contributions by] Thomas Crow ... [et al.].

Author

Eisenman, Stephen.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Crow, Thomas E., 1948-

Description

484 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Subject

Art, Modern > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-472) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Critical art and history -- CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM -- Patriotism and virtue: David to the young Ingres ; Classicism in crisis: Gros to Delacroix / Thomas Crow -- Tensions of enlightenment: Goya -- Visionary history painting: Blake and his contemporaries ; Nature and history in English romantic landscape painting ; Landscape art and romantic nationalism in Germany and America ; Architecture unshackled, 1790-1851 / Brian Lukacher -- NEW WORLD FRONTIERS -- Old world, new world : the encounter of cultures on the American frontier ; Black and white in America / Francis K. Pohl -- REALISM AND NATURALISM -- The generation of 1830 and the crisis in the public sphere -- Rhetoric of realism : Courbet and the origins of the avant-garde -- Photography, modernity, and art / David Llewellyn -- The decline of history painting : Germany, Italy, and France -- MODERN ART AND LIFE -- Architecture and design in the age of industry -- Manet and the Impressionists -- Issues of gender in Cassatt and Eakins / Linda Nochlin -- Mass culture and Utopia : Seurat and Neoimpressionism -- The appeal of modern art: Toulouse-Lautrec -- Abstraction and populism : Van Gogh -- Symbolism and the dialectics of retreat -- The failure and success of Cézanne.

ISBN

• 0500286507 (pbk.)
• 9780500286500 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library