19th Century Modern Art

Without question, the tache (blot, patch, stain) is a central and recurring motif in nineteenth-century modernist painting. Manet's and the Impressionists’ rejection of academic finish produced a surface where the strokes of paint were presented directly, as patches or blots, then indirectly as legi..

This book investigates and problematizes the long-held belief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioning visual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphic satire, photographs, advertisements and architectural sites, S..

This book investigates and problematizes the long-held belief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioning visual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphic satire, photographs, advertisements and architectural sites, S..

This book investigates and problematizes the long-held belief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioning visual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identify alcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphic satire, photographs, advertisements and architectural sites, S..

After Francis Bacon is the first book to consider how the uncritical reception of David Sylvester's interviews has shaped interpretations of Bacon's work. Nicholas Chare moves beyond the interviews' limiting effects to offer new readings of the artist's works, primarily based on themes of sexuality ..

After Francis Bacon is the first book to consider how the uncritical reception of David Sylvester's interviews has shaped interpretations of Bacon's work. Nicholas Chare moves beyond the interviews' limiting effects to offer new readings of the artist's works, primarily based on themes of sexuality ..

Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism presents the first sustained re-evaluation of the life and work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of the late-Victorian period. Drawing on important archival sources, this ground-breaking study challenges the customary assumption that Aestheticism was primarily a l..

Diana Cordileone applies standard methods of cultural and intellectual history for close readings of Riegl’s published texts, several of which are still unavailable in English. Using archival and other primary sources this study also illuminates the institutional conflicts and imperatives that shape..

Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada is the first book-length study to interrogate the Paris Dadaists' complex and often contested position in the postwar groundswell of anarchoindividualism. Drawing on such surviving documentation as correspondence, criticism, periodicals, pamphlets, and manifest..

Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada is the first book-length study to interrogate the Paris Dadaists' complex and often contested position in the postwar groundswell of anarchoindividualism. Drawing on such surviving documentation as correspondence, criticism, periodicals, pamphlets, and manifest..

 Antebellum American Pendant Paintings: New Ways of Looking marks the first sustained study of pendant paintings: discrete images designed as a pair, opening with a broad overview that anchors the form in the medieval diptych, religious history, and aesthetic theory...

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..