Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 analyzes transgressions of gender and sexuality as represented in paintings by Leighton, Sargent, Tuke and their con..
Reconstructing Empress Eugénie's position as private collector and public patron, this study is the first to examine Eugénie (1826-1920) in these role..
The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting leg..
Focusing on one representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values...
The first monograph to examine the depiction of reading women in French art of the early Third Republic, Women Readers in French Painting 1870-1890 ev..
Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each p..
Modernism on Stage restores the Ballets Russes to its central role in the Parisian art world of the 1910s and 1920s, and includes close readings of ba..
Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender fi..
After Francis Bacon is the first book to consider how the uncritical reception of David Sylvester's interviews has shaped interpretations of Bacon's w..
Drawing on art, literary, journalism, and publishing histories, this study argues that fine art practices of the Victorian period were influenced by t..
An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. The book exa..
Introducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the product..