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Nineteenth century art : a critical history /

Eisenman, Stephen F.

Nineteenth century art : a critical history / 19th century art Stephen F. Eisenman ; [with] Thomas Crow ... [et al.]. - 4th ed. - London : Thames & Hudson, 2011. - 500 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

CW027 Previous edition: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- The 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.

This new fourth edition includes four revised chapters together with a substantially expanded chapter on Photography, Modernity and Art.

9780500289242: £32.00 0500289247 (pbk.)


Art, Modern--19th century
Art and Design.
History of art

/ .N56 2011

709.034

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