Nineteenth Century Art a Critical History 4th Edition by Stephen Eisenman

Nineteenth Century Art

Nineteenth Century Art : A Disquisitional History (Quaternary edition)

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Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History, hailed as 'one of the virtually engrossing and stimulating art history texts to come along for years' past The Times Higher Instruction Supplement, embraces many aspects of the and so-called 'new' art history - attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism, pop and aristocracy civilisation - while at the same fourth dimension recovering the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era's best art. This new quaternary edition includes four revised chapters together with a substantially expanded chapter on 'Photography, Modernity and Art'. With 245 illustrations now in colour, including over a dozen brand new images, this rich and diverse volume will interest students, specialists and anyone fascinated by this dynamic flow.
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  • Paperback | 500 pages
  • 216 x 270 ten 35mm | ane,920g
  • Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • London, United Kingdom
  • English
  • Revised
  • Fourth edition
  • 265 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, color
  • 0500289247
  • 9780500289242
  • 331,477

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This is a radical reconsideration of the origins of mod painting and sculpture in Europe and N America. In art, equally in nearly every other field, the nineteenth century was a time of questioning, experimentation, discovery and modernization. Artists divined and portrayed, as never before, the crucial connections between seeing and knowing, vision and guild. From Goya to Blake, from Courbet to Eakins, from Cassatt to Cezanne, from Van Gogh to Ensor, they challenged the prevailing definitions of art and the social order. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History embraces many aspects of the so-called "new" art history - attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism - while emphasizing the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era'due south best art. Indeed, the authors insist that there is a profound sympathy between these new methods and the fine art nether test. For information technology was nineteenth-century artists who first addressed the bug that preoccupy audiences and scholars today: the relation between popular and elite civilization, the legacy of the Enlightenment, the question of the canon, and the representation of women and non-European peoples. This rich and diverse volume suggests that nineteenth-century art remains compelling today because its disquisitional insights have rarely been surpassed. It will show of interest not only to the specialist, but to anyone fascinated by the fine art, history and civilization of this unique era.
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Table of contents

Introduction: Disquisitional Art and History Classicism and Romanticism 1 Thomas Crow Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Immature Ingres two Thomas Crow Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix 3 The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya iv Brian Lukacher Visionary History Painting: Blake and his Contemporaries 5 Brian Lukacher Nature and History in English Romantic Landscape Painting 6 Brian Lukacher Landscape Art and Romantic Nationalism in Frg and America seven Brian Lukacher Architecture Unshackled 1790 - 1851 New Earth Frontiers eight Frances Thou. Pohl Former Earth, New Globe: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier nine Frances Yard. Pohl Blackness and White in America Realism and Naturalism 10 The generation of 1830 and the Crunch in the Public Sphere 11 The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde 12 David Llewellyn Phillips Photography, Modernity and Art 13 The Turn down of History Painting: Federal republic of germany, Italy, France and Russia Mod Fine art and Life 14 Compages and Pattern in the Age of Industry 15 Manet and the Impressionists xvi Linda Nochlin Bug of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins 17 Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimprerssionism 18 The Entreatment of Modern Fine art: Toulouse-Lautrec 19 Brainchild and Populism: Van Gogh 20 Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat 21 The Failure and Success of Cezanne Chronology * Select Bibliography * List of Illustrations * Index
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'We emerge from the book with our appreciation of its visual subject matter immeasurably enriched' - London Review of Books 'Essential reading...[it] volition help to re-ascertain the shifting boundaries of the fine art-historical survey' - Guardian 'It should be compulsory reading' - Art Book Review Quarterly 'Relevant, instructive and exhaustive ... combines essential facts, useful examples, accurate case studies for newcomers and advanced readers. ... For academy and public libraries, these 2 books are essential' - Cassone
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Well-nigh Stephen F. Eisenman

Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. He is the
author of The Temptation of Saint Redon and Gauguin's Skirt, and has curated numerous
exhibitions, including Design in the Historic period of Darwin, The Ecology of Impressionism and
William Blake in the Age of Aquarius. He conceived and edited this book, and is its
principal writer. Thomas Crow is Professor of Art History at the Plant of Fine Arts, New York University.
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