19th Century Modern Art

The importance of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879) within modern architecture cannot be overstated. Key theoretician of modernism, renowned restoration architect, medieval archaeologist and champion of Gothic revivalism, he also published some of the most influential texts in the history o..

While European eclecticism is examined as a critical moment in western art history, little research has been conducted in the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they negotiated the nineteenth century’s vast inventory of styles and embarked on a revivalist/Orientalist program they ide..

Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. The book offers a socio-historical ..

Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. The book offers a socio-historical ..

A thought-provoking series of essays provides the first detailed overview of art and the art world in the late 1980s and through the 1990s...

Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses questions whether the authority of the visual in "visual culture" should be deconstructed, and focuses on the roles of touch, taste, smell, and sound in works of art at specific moments in thei..

Should sight trump the other four senses when experiencing and evaluating art? Art, History and the Senses questions whether the authority of the visual in "visual culture" should be deconstructed, and focuses on the roles of touch, taste, smell, and sound in works of art at specific moments in thei..

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound together in communal production, sharing spiritual and aesthetic aims. Although it is widely acknowledged that this is an unique feature of the period, there h..

Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figures served as the quintessential image of difference in nineteenth-century European art. This collection marks a phase in the scholarship on images of blacks that moves beyond undifferentiated binaries like ’negative’ and ’positive’ that fail to..

This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting...

This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and cultural historians examine points of similarity and difference in British and American art collecting. Half the essays examine the trends that dominated the British art collecting scene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on American c..

Offering cultural, historical and literary readings of the responses to Italian Old Master art by early nineteenth-century writers, McCue illuminates the important role these artworks played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. She argues that they informed the..