Nineteenth century art : a critical history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisenman, Stephen
Other Authors: Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thames & Hudson, [2007]
Edition:3rd ed., college ed.
Subjects:
Table of 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.