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Romanticism A&i (Art & Ideas)
by David Blayney Brown  Synopsis A fresh approach to Romanticism, one of the most compelling and revolutionary artistic movements. The author takes a thematic approach to this period, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and Gothic Revival, and...
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Panorama of the Enlightenment (06 Edition)
by Dorinda Outram Publisher Comments The Enlightenment is that crucial, and profoundly exciting, period between the late seventeenth century and the French Revolution. It was the great age of rationalism and tolerance, an age of boundless curiosity about the physical universe and the nature...
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Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Gothic Imagination
by Martin Myrone Publisher Comments The 1770s were marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror, and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic. In 1782 the unveiling of Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare was met with a mixture of shock and fascination, and was followed...
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Victorian Painting
by Julian Treuherz Synopsis The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influence with the native British tradition. Artists include the Pre-Raphaelites...
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments The MacArthur Fellowship recipient author of Virgin Time describes her fascination with a Matisse painting during her post-college years, which prompted intricate meditations on the painting's symbolism as well as her own international travels....
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of this lounging woman...
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Techniques of the Observer : on Vision and Modernity in the 19TH Century (92 Edition)
by Jonathan Crary Publisher Comments Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the...
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Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858
by Siegfried Wichmann Publisher Comments "An important phase in the history of decorative arts is here given authoritative treatment."—Interior Design The impact of Japan on Western art was as immediate and almost as cataclysmic as the influence of the West on Japanese life. After...
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Japonisme: Cultural Crossings Between Japan and the West
by Lionel Lamboume Publisher Comments Presents a broad survey of the West's love affair with Japan from the 16th century to the late 19th century. The book reviews not only Japan's influence on Western fine and decorative arts but also furnishings, fashion, literature theater and gardens....
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Symbolism
by Michael Gibson Publisher Comments "To clothe the idea in perceptible form," proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism. It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged headlong into the cultural space...
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Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries & Armor from the Patrimonio
by Antonio Domin Ortiz Book News Annotation Tapestries and armor, two very different art forms, are brought together to portray the taste and formidable power of Hapsburg monarchs Charles V and his son Phillip II in Spain during the 16th century in this catalogue of an exhibition that...
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Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century
by Rafael Cardos Denis Synopsis Throughout the nineteenth century, academies functioned as the main venues for the teaching, promotion, and display of art. Contemporary scholars have, for the most part, denigrated academic art, calling it formulaic, unoriginal, and repetitious. The...
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The Pre-Raphaelites (World of Art)
by Timothy Hilton Synopsis Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society....
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Documentary History of Art Volume 2
by Elizabeth G Holt Review The book is a godsend, not only for the instruction it provides, but for the surprises and lasting pleasure....
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Victorian Watercolours
by Christopher Newall Synopsis - The first general introduction to a popular medium in the Victorian era - the preferred form of expression for many artists - Features full-colour masterworks by such major figures as Ruskin, Burne-Jones and Rossetti, along with many lesser-known but...
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A Romance with the Landscape: Realism to Impressionism
by Janie Welker Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century France produced a cadre of artists whose first impulse was to escape the turmoil of Paris and seek refuge in the countryside, where they created an art grounded in their fresh responses to the natural world. Such artists as Charles...
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Museum Studies #32: Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago
by Larry J Feinberg Publisher Comments This issue of Museum Studies focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago’s impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry J. Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the...
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Arts of the 19TH Century Volume 2 1850 1905
by Francoise Cachin Publisher Comments The second half of the 19th century was a period of rapid change. This era of optimistic industrial achievement and scientific invention inspired new and diverse artistic movements, and saw the dawn of the skyscraper, the automobile, and the cinema. This...
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Nineteenth Century Art : Critical History (3RD 07 Edition)
by Stephen F. Eisenman Publisher Comments "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...
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European Art of the Sixteenth Century (Art Through the Centuries)
by Stefano Zuffi Publisher Comments In the sixteenth century the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent, resulting in the development of a number of local artistic styles in other...
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