Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History 3rd Edition

9780500286838_title_tn thumbnailNineteenth Century Art:
A Critical History

Edited by Stephen F. Eisenman
with Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin,
David L. Phillips and Frances K. Pohl


CONTENTS

Introduction: Critical Art and History

Classicism and Romanticism

1     Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres
            Thomas Crow
2     Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix
            Thomas Crow
3     The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya
4     History Painting: Blake and His Contemporaries
5     Nature and History in English Romantic Landscape Painting
6     Landscape Art and Romantic Naturalism in Germany and America
            Brian Lukacher
7     Architecture Unshackled, 1790–1851 NEW
            Brian Lukacher

New World Frontiers

8     Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier
            Frances K. Pohl
9     Black and White in America
            Frances K. Pohl

Realism and Naturalism

10     The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere
11     The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde
12     Photography, Modernity and Art
            David Llewellyn Phillips
13     The Decline of History Painting: Germany, Italy, and France

Modern Art and Life

14     Architecture and Design in the Age of Industry NEW
15     Manet and the Impressionists
16     Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins
            Linda Nochlin
17     Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism
18     The Appeal of Modern Art: Toulouse-Lautrec
19     Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh
20     Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat
21     The Failure and Success of Cézanne

Texts are by Stephen F. Eisenman unless otherwise stated

Chronology
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

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