James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors. Suzanne M. Singletary maintains that Whistler was in a unique situation as an insider within the emerging French avant-garde, thereby in an enviable position to b...
Illustrated with eight pages of color plates and scores of black-and-white illustrations, a ground-breaking investigation of the Gothic style in art and literature ranges from the seventeenth century to the contemporary rock band, The Cure.
The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian England, 1850-1880
by Katherine Haskins
Focusing on an era that both inherited and irretrievably altered the form and the content of earlier art production, The Art-Journal and Fine Art Publishing in Victorian England, 1850-1880 argues that fine art practices and the audiences and markets for them were influenced by the media culture of art publishing and journalism in substantial and formative ways, perhaps more than at any other time in the history of English art. The study centers on forms of Victorian picture-making and the art kn...
From its very inception in the late eighteenth century, Romanticism's celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930, the famous literary theorist Mario Praz named this strain in literature "Dark Romanticism," but its equivalent in art has never been thoroughly assessed in art history. This volume is the first to examine a current that runs from Goya's war etchings through Symbo...
This title is a Taschen 25 - Special edition! It deals with the topic of the innocence of the eye. As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner's paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner's uncompromising 19th-century defender, alluded to this idea when he spoke of an 'innocence of the eye' which perceived the world's colours and forms before it could recognize their significance. But to develo...
Gods and Heroes
by Emmanuel Schwartz, Emmanuelle Brugerolles, and Patricia Mainardi
Telling the fascinating story behind the pivotal role of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and its influence on so much of late seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century European visual culture, Gods and Heroes features 208 extraordinary art works from the Ecole's collection. These include remarkable paintings by Jean-Honore Fragonard, Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Antoine Watteau, as well as drawings by Leonardo and Raphael. A combination of g...
. A single, encompassing view of the rise of landscape art in Britain from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. . Features masterpieces by renowned artists: JMW Turner, Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones, Frank Brangwyn, August John, Cedric Morris, Stanley Spencer, Claude Monet, Laura Knight, Alfred Sisley, Edward Lear, Graham Sutherland and John Piper. 'Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills' recounts the story of British landscap...
In a moving intervention into Romantic-era depictions of the dead and wounded, Philip Shaw's timely study directs our gaze to the neglected figure of the common soldier. How suffering and sentiment were portrayed in a variety of visual and verbal media is Shaw's particular concern, as he examines a wide range of print and visual media, from paintings to sketches to political prose and anti-war poetry, and from writings on culture and aesthetics to graphic satires and early photographs. Whilst...
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) stands as one of England's most important and prolific landscape artists, ranking alongside Turner and Constable as a prime exponent of the English Romantic Movement. His watercolour paintings are considered to be exemplary of the English tradition. Bonington's reputation for poetic and topographical landscapes - as well as for dash and brilliance - earned him a renown that spanned Europe, but which has mysteriously dimmed with the years. This timely and uniqu...
Romanticism and the School of Nature (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
by Colta Ives and Elizabeth E. Barker
Nineteenth-century French and English paintings, drawings and oil sketches - works by such artists as Courbet, Constable, Delacroix, Gericault, Corot, Rousseau, Conture and Daubigny - are presented in this book, a documentation of some of the holdings of Karen B. Cohen, a noted New York collector.
Miniatures in the Wallace Collection
The 4th Marquess of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace were both passionate collectors of miniatures, exquisite small paintings in watercolor or enamel, generally made for private contemplation and one of the most popular mediums of portraiture in an age before the advent of photography. This book presents one of the major British collections of miniatures, a group of over 330 works which formed part of the generous bequest to the British nation made by Lady Wallace in 1897.
Life, Legend, Landscape
This catalogue presents a rich selection of Victorian drawings and watercolors from the important collection of The Courtauld Gallery, London. It features many previously unpublished works, ranging from informal preparatory drawings for paintings and sculptures to highly finished exhibition watercolors. The selection includes life studies, landscapes, genre scenes, and portraits as well as subjects from literature.
Franz von Stuck
A painter, architect, designer, and cofounder of the Munich Secession, Franz von Stuck (1863-1928) was an influential teacher of artists studying at the Munich Academy including Josef Albers, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. In his American debut at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Stuck was praised by contemporary critics as "one of the most versatile and ingenious of contemporary German artists." In 1898, Stuck exhibited his most famous painting, Sin, an iconic work of the fi...
A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard’s paintings known as the ’figures de fantaisie’, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination reconnects the fantasy figures with neglected visual traditions in European art and firmly situates them within the cultural and aesthetic contexts of eighteenth-century France. Prior scholarship has focused on the paintings’ connections with portraiture, whereas this study relocates them within a tradition of fantasy figures, where resembla...
Unverstaubteres als seine Prosa lässt sich nicht denken. Wer ihn liest, fühlt sich belebt durch seinen Witz, seine feine Bosheit, helle Vernunft und unbedingte Humanität. Robert Musil zufolge war es leichter, eine Forelle mit der Hand zu fangen, als eine ernsthafte Unterredung mit Alfred Polgar zu führen. Andreas Nentwich versucht es gar nicht erst, sondern wendet sich der Oberfläche zu: Maßschuhen und Geldnöten, Neurasthenien und Lebensspuren auf dem fotografischen Abbild. Und er passt Polgar d...
In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750-1837). The free attitude emanating from their paintings is one of the qualities which distingui...
The Victorian era produced many famous artists and styles. John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were part of the famous pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood whose willowy models were often seen in the works of several of the artists. One of the most famous was Elizabeth Siddall, an artist in her own right, who posed for Millais' Ophelia,married to Rossetti, and posed for him, Holman Hunt and Walter Deverell. This fascinating book is a must for everyone interested in art and the Victorian era,...
Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills
by Assistant Professor Tim Barringer and Oliver Fairclough