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Nineteenth Century Art A Critical History

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ISBN-10: 0500286507

ISBN-13: 9780500286500

Edition: 3rd 2007

Authors: Stephen F. Eisenman, Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David L. Phillips

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"Rich in ideas and illustrations...of interest to scholars and art enthusiasts alike." Library Journal Adopted at over four hundred colleges and universities since its first publication in 1994, this book has established itself as the most popular and highly regarded textbook in the field. It embraces many aspects of the new, revised art history (its attention to issues of class and gender; its critiques of racism and Eurocentrism), but it also emphasizes the remarkable vitality and subversiveness that constitute the legacy of the best nineteenth-century art. The third edition incorporates new chapters on design and architecture; increased coverage of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and…    
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Book details

Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 7/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 494
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.290
Language: English

Linda Nochlin is a highly celebrated feminist art historian. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her major books include Courbet, Representing Women, and Women, Art, and Power.

David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Project on the Future of Diplomacy.

Introduction: Critical Art and History
Classicism and Romanticism
Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres
Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix
The 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
New World Frontiers
Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier
Black and White in America
Realism And Naturalism
The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere
The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde
Photography, Modernity, and Art
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
Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism
The Appeal of Modern Art: Toulouse-Lautree
Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh
Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat
The Failure and Success of Cezanne