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Nineteenth century art : a critical history

Title
Nineteenth century art : a critical history / Stephen F. Eisenman ; [with contributions by] Thomas Crow [and others].
Author
Eisenman, Stephen.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
Description
484 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1780-1905
  • Art, Modern > 19th century
  • Art, Modern
  • Kunst
  • Malerei
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
  • 9780500286500
OCLC
  • ocn173189719
  • 173189719
  • SCSB-1455784
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library