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Nineteenth-Century Art

A Critical History

David Phillips author Stephen F Eisenman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published:5th Mar '20

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A fifth edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout

Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth edition of this classic book now features full-colour artworks throughout, new chapter introductions, examinations of key ideas, and other helpful pedagogical support.

Emphasizing the vitality of 19th-century art, the authors demonstrate how paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by David, Géricault, Turner, Homer, Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh and many others remain relevant today. Using evocative and lucid prose, the authors reveal how concerns about class and gender, race and ethnicity, modernity and tradition, and popular and elite culture – ideas that arose in the course of the 19th century – motivated artists and propelled the movements under review.

'A substantial and thoroughly illustrated survey of the period worldwide' - The Artist

ISBN: 9780500294895

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2040g

528 pages

Fifth edition