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Durer and Beyond: Central European Drawings, 1400-1700 by Stijn Alsteens Publisher Comments Dürer and Beyond presents a selection of 100 works from the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of German, Swiss, Austrian, and Bohemian drawings. Featured are numerous drawings by Albrecht Dürer, including his celebrated study... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover 
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Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall Publisher Comments Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's dominant artistic theories for what they saw as a more spiritual, naturalistic and intensely personal approach. Fascinated by the romantic aspects of... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Sale - Trade Paper
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Romanticism (Icon Editions) by Hugh Honour Publisher Comments 'This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable New-classicism.... The text is supported by a useful selection of... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbolism by Norbert Wolf Synopsis The year 1884 saw the appearance in Paris of a fin de sicle cult novel that was celebrated as an altogether perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. The title of the book was A Rebours (translated both as Against the Grain and Against Nature... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Sale - Flexible
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Nineteenth Century Art 2ND Edition a Critical Hi by Stephen Eisenman Publisher Comments 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... (read more) Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Celebrating in the Golden Age by Anna Tummers Publisher Comments From peasant fairs and carnival celebrations to lavish al fresco parties, processions and civic guard banquets, the Netherlands in the seventeenth century was a golden age of partying. Celebrating the Golden Age provides a pageant of people making merry... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nineteenth Century European Art by Petra Chu Publisher Comments This survey explores the history of nineteenth-century European art and visual culture. Focusing primarily on painting and sculpture, it places these two art forms within the larger context of visual culture–including photography, graphic design... (read more) List Price $124.35 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900 by Anne Leonard Publisher Comments Art is often appreciated for its ability to delight our eyes and refresh our minds. But it can also serve as a powerful vehicle for exploring darker emotions, such as fear, sadness, and grief. And while these themes have an artistic history dating back... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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Romanticism and Art (World of Art) by William Vaughan Publisher Comments In the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity, direct expression and natural feeling transformed... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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David to Delacroix by Walter Friedlaender Publisher Comments This renowned study follows the evolution of French painting from the Revolution through the Napoleonic era. Beginning with David's revolutionary classicism, Friedlaender scrutinizes the work of early-nineteenth-century artists against the background of... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 by Peter Parshall Synopsis For many today, the art of the late nineteenth century is dominated by Impressionism and Post-impressionism. By explicating a range of highly engaging, often mysterious and beautiful prints, drawings and small sculptures, The Darker Side of Light evokes... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $46.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours by Courtauld Gallery Publisher Comments Life, Legend, Landscape presents a rich selection of Victorian drawings and watercolors from the Courtauld Gallery collection, ranging from finished watercolors intended for public exhibition to informal sketches and preparatory drawings for paintings or... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History by Stephen Eisenman Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $81.25 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia of Artists: Painters of the Nineteenth Century by Todtri Productions Publisher Comments The lives of noted nineteenth-century artists, the shining stars and the lesser lights, are told here in this encyclopedia, featuring biographies of 366 painters. Details of their art educations, influences, and styles are provided in a clear, concise... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Soundings: Studies in Art and Literature by Anita Brookner Publisher Comments The essays and articles on art and literature assembled here have been written over the last twenty-five years by a writer who has earned recognition as much for her academic achievements as for the accomplishments of her literary career. Anita Brookner... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson Publisher Comments When one enters this beautiful book from the cluttered streets of everyday life, one is fed by the artist's eye, the poet's voice, and the insight of the mystics. --Anne Morrow... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Seventeenth Century Art & Architecture by Ann Sutherland Harris Publisher Comments Written by a leading scholar, Seventeenth Century Art: Architecture, 2/e is the only text on the market that introduces students to the three major art forms-painting, sculpture and architecture, across six countries. The text engagingly and... (read more) Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Aesthetic Movement by Lionel Lambourne Publisher Comments The Aesthetic Movement swept through England in the latter part of the nineteenth century, touching every sphere of the fine and decorative arts and bringing a new freedom to all aspects of design. In architecture, the dogmatism of Gothic gave way to the... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Documentary History of Art From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Gilm Holt Publisher Comments The nineteenth-century historian and artist shared the same aim, to present the unsystematic diversity of peoples, cultures, customs, and myths in a process of evolutionary transformation, that was to be comprehended by feeling.... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Nineteenth Century European Art by Petra Ten Doess Chu Publisher Comments This survey explores the history of nineteenth-century European art and visual culture. Focusing primarily on painting and sculpture, it places these two art forms within the larger context of visual culture–including photography, graphic design... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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