19th-Century Art

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Features

NEW-Enhanced historical perspective-With a selection of sparkling critical and artistic responses to many of the key works of art since their creation-such as Géricault on the public response to his famous Raft of the Medusa, John Ruskin on Turner, and poet Baudelaire on the sculpture of the day.

NEW-Now features and explores the work of photography as respectable art.

~Exposes new ways of seeing and interpreting nineteenth-century art.

NEW-Full color throughout and redesigned format-Fully exploits the illustrations so they reinforce the narrative.

~Makes it easier for students to follow.

NEW-Emphasis on women artists and the social role of women in the nineteenth century.

NEW-Boxed inserts-Contributing fresh critical anthologies that mirror the changing historical responses to specific works discussed in the text.

NEW-Features 540 illustrations-370 of which are in full color.

Features an international perspective.

Stresses the interconnections of painting and sculpture with the other arts, and to social and political conditions.

Reflects the revisionist interpretation of 19th-century art. 

Table of Contents

Part 1. 1776-1815.

Changes in History Painting.

Crossing the Atlantic: Anglo-American.

Connections and the Wooing of John Singleton Copley.

France.

Jacques-Louis David.

Challenging Apollo: David and the Martyrdom of Jean-Paul Marat.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes Goya and the Imaging of Royalty in Spain.

The Rise of Romanticism in England.

The NeoclassicRomantic Dilemma.

Painting in France after David.

The Primitifs: An Early Artistic Brotherhood in the Nineteenth Century.

The Image of the Ruler.

Varieties of Landscape Painting.

The Nazarenes.

The Nazarenes: German Romantics in Rome.

Romantic Meditations in Germany and France.

SCULPTURE.

Introduction.

England.

Scandinavia.

France.

A `Pedestrian Statue': Houdon,  Jefferson, and Washington.

Antonio Canova.

The Early Thorvaldsen.

Austria and Germany.

Part 2. 1815-1848.

PAINTING.

Retrospection and Introspection: The Congress of Vienna and Late Goya.

The´odore Ge´ricault.

Ge´ricault and The Raft of the Medusa.

Delacroix, Ingres, and the Romantic-Classic Conflict in France.

Turner and Romantic Visionaries.

Turner and his Champion, John Ruskin: The Snowstorm at Sea  and the Oscillating Critic.

Constable and Romantic Naturalism.

From History Painting to Biedermeier.

Caspar David Friedrich's Woman by the Window.

Empirical Directions.

Social Observers.

SCULPTURE.

Introduction.

The Mature Thorvaldsen.

England.

The United States.

Italy.

Germany.

France.

Baudelaire and the Challenge for Sculpture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.

The Romantic Theory of Sculpture.

Part 3. 1848-1870.

PAINTING.

The 1848 Revolution: Some Pictorial Responses.

Jean-François Millet and Peasant Painters.

Rosa Bonheur: Painting in the Nivernais.

Gustave Courbet.

Materialism versus Idealism.

Courbet, the Pavillion du Re´alisme, and The Painter's Studio in 1855.

Poverty and Piety.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Cross-cultural Reactions to the Pre Raphaelites: John Ruskin and Eugène Delacroix.

History Painting.

Menzel, Modernity and Realism in Germany.

Escapist Modes in Figure and Landscape Painting.

Frederic Edwin Church, Cotopaxi, and the American Sublime.

The 1860s: Manet and Painting in Paris.

Painting Out-of Doors: Toward Impressionism.

Silvestro Lega and the Macchiaioli.

SCULPTURE.

France.

Carpeaux and La Danse: The Tribulations of Public Art.

Italy.

England.

The United States Germany and Austria.

Part 4. 1870-1900.

PAINTING.

Reflections of the Franco-Prussian War.

1874: The First Impressionist Exhibition.

1874: At the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy.

The 1870s: From Realism to Aestheticism.

Interiors: Domestic and Erotic.

Changes in History Painting and Portraiture.

Sargent's "Broken Realism": The Bolt Sisters.

National Landscape.

Paul Ce´zanne.

Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionism.

Seurat and Pointillism: The Dot as Marxist Matrix.

Vincent van Gogh.

Ensor, Klinger, Redon.

Paul Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism.

Gauguin, Reprised Romanticism, and Christian Symbolism.

The 1890s: Postscript and Prologue.

SCULPTURE.

Introduction.

France.

Italy.

Belgium.

Germany.

England.

Leighton's Athlete Wrestling with a Python: A Restless Modernity.

The United States.

Postscript: The Fin de Sie`cle.

Back Cover

A book that broke new ground when it was first published, 19th-Century Art today reads with the same authority and scholarly verve as it has for the past twenty years.

This revised and updated edition remains true to the original, with its magisterial survey of painting and sculpture presented in four historical parts, beginning in 1776 and ending with the dawn of the new century at the Paris Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) of 1900. The text draws on the historical documentation of the period, tracing the dynamics of the making and viewing of art, and examining the reciprocal influences of art and technology, art and politics, art and literature, art and music.

19th-Century Art has been influential in cementing the reputations of many painters and sculptors, and this new edition adds more artists to the pantheon. It also explores for the first time the work of photographers, who themselves provoked new ways of looking at nineteenth-century painting. Historical perspective is enhanced in this edition with a selection of sparkling critical and artistic responses to many of the key works of art since their creation, such as: Gericault on the public response to his famous Raft of the Medusa, John Ruskin on Turner, and poet Baudelaire on the sculpture of the day.

To match the opulence of the subject, the new edition features 540 illustrations, 370 of which are in full color.