Title Nineteenth century art : a critical history
Publication Info [New York] : Thames & Hudson, 2011
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 Watson Library Stacks  N6450 .E39 2011    CHECKED OUT
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Edition 4th ed
Description 504 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
Contents The First Modern Century -- Art and Emancipation, Art and Reaction -- The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Critical Art History -- A Critical Survey of Nineteenth-Century Art -- Classicism and Romanticism -- 1. Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres / Thomas Crow -- The Cult of Civic Virtue -- A Call to Order -- The Enterprise of Women -- The Circle of Men -- A Violent Patrimony -- Tragedy and the Republic of Equals -- Figures of Revolutionary Virtue -- Figures of Revolutionary Death -- Leaving Terror Behind -- The Sublime of Authoritarianism -- Dreams Beyond History -- 2. Classicism In Crisis: Gros to DELACROIX / Thomas Crow -- Force of Arms -- An Imperial Antiquity -- The Artist Hero in the Face of Empire -- Return from the Wreckage -- Punishments of the Damned -- Suicide of the Despot -- 3. The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya -- Reason and Madness: Conflicts of the Age -- The Image of the Pueblo: The Later Art of Goya -- 4. Visionary History Painting: Blake and His Contemporaries / Brian Lukacher -- Blake's Revolution -- Body Politics and Religious Mysticism -- Blake's Public Art -- Blake and Contemporary English Art of the Sublime -- Prophecy and Prehistory -- 5. Nature and History In English Romantic Landscape Painting / Brian Lukacher -- Landscape Instincts and the Picturesque -- Ruins and Cities -- Constable's Rustic Naturalism -- Constable and the Ruin of England -- Visionary Landscapes of Palmer and Martin -- Turner's Meaningful Obscurity -- Turner's Later Work -- 6. Landscape Art and Romantic Nationalism In Germany and America / Brian Lukacher -- Runge's New Age -- A Soulful Past: Lukasbund -- Friedrich and the Mediation of Landscape -- Progress and its Discontents: Thomas Cole and the American Landscape -- To Silence or to Reveal Nature's Allegory -- 7. Architecture Unshackled, 1790-1851 / Brian Lukacher -- A Modern Enlightenment -- The New Architecture of Social Institutions -- Architecture and the Gothic Imagination -- Changing Urban Landscapes -- Faith or Technology -- New World Frontiers -- 8. Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier / Frances K. Pohl -- The Buckskin Jacket and the Parker Pen -- The Myth of the Frontier -- The Stain on a Painter's Palette: Charles Bird King and George Catlin -- Alternative Representations: Photography and Ledger Art -- 9. Black and White in America / Frances K. Pohl -- America as an African Invention -- African Americans and the Civil War -- Images of Reconstruction: Prisoners From the Front and A Visit From the Old Mistress -- The African American Artist at Home and Abroad: Edmonia Lewis and Henry Osawa Tanner -- Realism and Naturalism -- 10. The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere -- Romanticism and the Burden of Truth -- The July Monarchy and the Art of the Juste Milieu -- The Paradox of Patriotism: David d'Angers's Pantheon Pediment -- Classicism and the Woman Question: Thomas Couture -- 11. The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde -- Rhetorics of Realist Art and Politics -- Courbet's Trilogy of 1849-50 -- Courbet's The Studio of the Painter -- 12. Photography, Modernity, and Art / David Llewellyn Phillips -- Natural Magic -- Commercial Portraiture and the Industrialization of Photography -- Photography, Art, and the Debate over Focus -- Amateurs and Artists -- 13. The Decline of History Painting: Germany, Italy, France, and Russia -- The Rise of Naturalism in Germany -- The Italian Macchiaioli -- Individualism and Naturalism in French Salon Art -- Challenges to Academic Painting in Russia -- Modern Art and Life -- 14. Architecture and Design in the Age of Industry -- Handcraft and Machine Production -- Opposition to Mechanization -- William Morris -- Arts and Crafts Architecture and Town Planning -- Reconciliation with the Machine -- The Architecture of World's Fairs and Capitalist Commerce -- 15. Manet and the Impressionists -- Edouard Manet and Haussmannization -- Manet's Olympia -- Impressionism and the Commodity -- 16. Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins / Linda Nochlin -- Gender and Difference -- The Portrait -- Cassatt and the Gaze -- Eakins and the American Hero -- Women and Children -- Cassatt, Eakins, and the Modern Allegory -- 17. Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism -- The Antinomies of Georges Seurat -- Seurat's Drawings and their Dispersion of Meaning -- A "Manifesto Painting": A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte -- Mass Culture and the Paradox of Pleasure: Chahut -- 18. The Appeal of Modern Art: Toulouse-Lautrec -- Novelty and Desire -- The Crowd -- Toulouse-Lautrec and Urban Art -- Modern Form, Popular Content -- Poster Art -- The Metropolitan Fetish -- 19. Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh -- Seurat and Van Gogh Compared -- Two Myths about Van Gogh -- Van Gogh's First Statements of Purpose -- Early Art in The Hague and Neunen: The Potato Eaters -- Academic Training and Avant-Garde Education in Antwerp and Paris -- Van Gogh in Aries -- Starry Night and Critical Modernism -- 20. Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat -- Modernism versus Symbolism -- The Rhetoric of Symbolism -- Gauguin and Symbolism in Brittany -- Ensor and Populism -- Symbolist Landscape Painting: Munch, Redon, Monet, and Hodler -- The Vienna Secession -- Gauguin and Symbolism in Tahiti -- 21. The Failure and Success of Cezanne -- Symbolism in Extremis -- Cezanne: The Cultural Revolutionary -- Cezanne's Development: The Quest for Totality -- Cezanne's Artistic Maturity -- Cezanne and the End of Nineteenth-Century Art
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subjects Painting -- North America -- 19th century
Painting, European -- 19th century.
Sculpture -- North America -- 19th century
Sculpture -- Europe -- 19th century
ISBN 0500288887
9780500288887
OCLC 694147518