Synopses & Reviews
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, architecture, and decorative arts. In turn, all are treated within a broad historical framework to show the connections between visual cultural production and the political, social, and economic order of the time. Topics covered include The Classical Paradigm, Art and Revolutionary Propaganda In France, The Arts under Napoleon and Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century. For art enthusiasts, or anyone who wants to learn more about Art History.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Rococo, Enlightenment, and the Call for a New Art in the
Mid-Eighteenth Century
2. The Classical Paradigm
3. British Art during the Late Georgian Period
4. Art and Revolutionary Propaganda in France
5. The Arts under Napoleon
6. Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the
Eighteenth Century
7. The Beginnings of Romanticism in the German-Speaking World
8. The Importance of Landscape–British Painting in the
Early-Nineteenth Century
9. The Restoration Period and the Rejection of Classicism in France
10. The Popularization of Art and Visual Culture in France during
the July Monarchy (1830—1848)
11. The Revolution of 1848 and the Emergence of Realism in France
12. Progress, Modernity, and Modernism–French Visual Culture
during the Second Empire, 1852—1870
13. Art in the German-Speaking World from the Congress of
Vienna to the German Empire, 1815—1871
14. Art in Victorian Britain, 1837—1901
15. National Pride and International Rivalry–the Great
International Expositions
16. French Art after the Commune–Conservative and Modernist
Trends
17. French Avant-Garde Art in the 1880s
18. When the Eiffel Tower Was New
19. France during La Belle Epoque
20. International Trends c. 1920
Timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index