| Description |
376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-367) and index. |
| Contents |
Critical art and history -- Classicism and Romanticism: Patriotism and virtue: David to the young Ingres / Thomas Crow -- Classicism in crisis: Gros to Delacroix / Thomas Crow -- The tensions of enlightment: Goya -- Visionary history painting: Blake and his contemporaries / Brian Lukacher -- Nature historicized: Constable, Turner, and Romantic landscape painting / Brian Lukacher -- New world frontiers: Old world, new world: the encounter of cultures on the American frontier / Frances K. Pohl -- Black and white in America / Frances K. Pohl -- Realism and naturalism: The generation of 1830 and the crisis in the public sphere -- The rhetoric of realism: Courbet and the origins of the avant-garde -- The decline of history painting: Germany, Italy, and France -- Modern art and life: Manet and the Impressionists -- Issues of gender in Cassatt and Eakins / Linda Nochlin -- Seurat and neoimpressionism -- Abstraction and populism: Van Gogh -- Symbolism and the dialectics of retreat -- The failure and success of Cezanne. |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Crow, Thomas E., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0500236755 |
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9780500236758 |
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0500277532 paperback |
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9780500277539 paperback |
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