This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from circa 1850 through the 1960s....Daugiau...
This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-nineteenth century France at the time of the 1867 Worlds Fair....Daugiau...
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modern...Daugiau...
This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury....Daugiau...
This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives....Daugiau...
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, this collection examines material and visual cultures alongside literary studies. Intended for researchers in litera...Daugiau...
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskins engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskins intellectual...Daugiau...
This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture....Daugiau...
This book explores the territories where manual, graphic, photographic, and digital techniques interfere and interlace in sciences and humanities....Daugiau...
This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period of 1840-1914....Daugiau...
Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825-1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion acr...Daugiau...
In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940...Daugiau...
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism....Daugiau...
First Published in 1988, Post-impressionists in England documents the response of English taste to modern French art from the first Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1910 to the outbreak of the First World War....Daugiau...
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what might be ideas of vertiginous collecting, art making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses, missionary museums or museobuses, in Britain and South Asia....Daugiau...
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a formal mode widely practised in nineteenth-century British culture acros...Daugiau...
This volume of primary source materials documents the spatial layouts of the nineteenth century home as they often became more precisely planned with rooms for specific purposes being developed. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this co...Daugiau...
This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style, and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, th...Daugiau...
This volume of primary source materials documents the nature of the home and the theories and discussions around the concept. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art hi...Daugiau...
This volume of primary source materials documents the essential practical aspects of making a home, decorating it and then furnishing it. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and schola...Daugiau...
Using interdisciplinary research and critical analysis, this book examines experiences through (or with) kimonos in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period....Daugiau...
This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century....Daugiau...
This is a study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called monism the concept of a unity of matter and spirit em...Daugiau...
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analysing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure....Daugiau...
First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British pa...Daugiau...
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the...Daugiau...
Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era....Daugiau...
