Though his father had faced bankruptcy, James Clarke Hook (1819–1907) nevertheless managed to paint himself into country-gentlemanhood, becoming famous for his landscapes of British coastal scenes and his ability to evoke not just the sights but also the sounds and even the smell of the sea. James Clarke Hook, Juliet McMaster’s lively biography of the brilliant but underappreciated Victorian painter, brings the reader through Hook’s rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling...
(Re)Made in China
[vorl] The creative reuse of ‘made-in-China’ materials has a long history in art and design. When potters in China made plates and bowls, they have not known that they would be reused to decorate European palaces. This volume understands ‘recycling’ as a range of creative practices, including the upcycling of manmade materials, or the appropriation of architectural fragments and industrially produced items.
Ap(r) Art History Crash Course, 2nd Ed., Book + Online (Advanced Placement (AP) Crash Course)
by Gayle A Asch and Matt Curless
Turner (Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute)
by Lee Hamilton and James Hamilton
The English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is renowned for his sublime and dramatic landscapes and seascapes. This volume, written by Turner expert James Hamilton and published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, focuses primarily on the artist's spectacular seascapes dating from the 1840s, the last decade of his illustrious career. The author provides insights into these powerful works, relating them to the artist's...
Paul Delaroche
Paul Delaroche was a hugely popular painter during his lifetime, first making his name with a series of historical scenes which enjoyed great acclaim at the Paris Salon. His renown extended far beyond his native country. Honoured by almost every major academy, his pictures were sought by collectors in Britain, Germany, and Russia. One of his British patrons, Richard Seymour Conway (1800-1870), 4th Marquis of Hertford, acquired ten of his oil paintings and two watercolours. This group, one of t...
A versatile genius whose oeuvre includes paintings, engravings, and detailed anatomical studies, George Stubbs (1724-1806) was fascinated by horses. This handsome book presents for the first time the wide range of his equine imagery, from refined portraits of racehorses to violent scenes of horses attacked by lions in the wild. Taking full account of the associations and status of the "noble horse" in eighteenth-century Britain and the colourful world of its devotees - both high and low - the au...
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. In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photography—of Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competition—it illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in produ...
Ab 1789 brachen auch Künstler im Zuge der Emigration zahlreicher Menschen aus Frankreich auf. Die meisten trieb der Niedergang des Kunstmarkts außer Landes, als unausweichliche Folge politischer Instabilität. Doch die Dynamik der Radikalisierung nach innen und des Krieges nach außen ließ Arbeitsmigration und Exil ineinander übergehen. Ob nun offiziell als Emigranten geführt oder nicht: Künstler wie Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Jean-Laurent Mosnier, Henri-Pierre Danloux und Louis Gauffier behaupteten...
Georg Ernst Harzen (Forschungen zur Geschichte der Hamburger Kunsthalle)
by Silke Reuther
Die Hamburger Kunsthalle erhielt mit ihrer Eröffnung im Jahr 1869 einen einzigartigen Nachlass von etwa 30.000 Zeichnungen und Druckgrafiken. Diese Sammlung war ein Vermächtnis des international geschätzten Kunsthändlers Georg Ernst Harzen (1790–1863). Ab 1824 betrieb er seine Hamburger Kunsthandlung gemeinsam mit Johann Matthias Commeter. Mit Harzens Rückzug ins Private 1856 nahmen sie eine Aufteilung von Vermögen und Kunstsammlung vor: Anlass dazu gab Harzens Vorhaben, ein zukünftiges in Hambu...
A romantic view of 19th-century Canada -- a domestic complement to the work of Bartlett, Constable, and Kane.Anthony Flower (1792-1875) lived and worked in New Brunswick for most of his life. A farmer with a lifelong passion for art, he painted until his death at the age of eighty-three. His work opens a window on a time and place now gone. His paintings depict the life that he saw around him in rural New Brunswick and the events and scenes described in newspapers of the day.Anthony Flower's art...
Deutschland und Millet (Passagen - Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte /Passages - Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art)
by Andrea Meyer
Das Buch analysiert erstmals die Rezeption des Werkes Jean-François Millets (1814–1875) in Deutschland von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur Ära des Nationalsozialimus in Abhängigkeit von den jeweiligen kulturellen, politischen und historischen Rahmenbedingungen. Dabei rücken nicht nur die Kunstliteratur, sondern auch die Sammlungsaktivitäten sowie der Konsum von Massenreproduktionen als maßgebliche Elemente des Transfers ins Blickfeld. Es wird deutlich, dass Millets Popularität in Deut...
Renoir at the Theatre
by Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen and Barnaby Wright
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's La Loge (The Theater Box), 1874, is one of the masterpieces of impressionism and a major highlight of The Courtauld Gallery's collection. Its depiction of an elegant couple on display in a loge epitomizes the Impressionists' interest in the spectacle of modern life. At the heart of the painting is the complex play of gazes enacted by these two figures. In turning away from the performance, Renoir focused instead upon theater as a social stage where status and relationship...
James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts
by Dr William L. Pressly
Between 1777 and 1784, the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) executed six murals for the Great Room of the [Royal] Society of Arts in London. Although his works form the most impressive series of history paintings in Great Britain, they remain one of the British art world's best kept secrets, having attracted little attention from critics or the general public. James Barry's Murals at the Royal Society of Arts is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of these remarkable paintings and the f...
Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture
by Michael D. Garval
The first English-language monograph on the French dancer and model, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture explores the haunting legacy of this intriguing and glamorous figure, an international celebrity at the dawn of modern celebrity culture. Situating Mérode at a pivotal moment in the history of fame and visual culture, this study analyzes how technological and societal changes led to our star-struck modernity. Mérode was one of the earliest examples of fame born from mass...
In his pediment for the Pantheon, a sculptural work depicting the many citizens who advanced the revolutionary cause in France, Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (1788-1856) celebrated the heroism of the individual while perpetuating a mythology of the modern world. Reassessing the art of David d'Angers, Jacques de Caso not only presents him as a central figure of French Romanticism, but also explores his role in shaping the artistic and social directions of French sculpture during this period. The aut...
This book is about a family tree: the line of descent that can be traced from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth. It is not the usual kind of genealogy, of those connected by blood, more an 'apostolic succession', following the way in which art in Europe was taught, from one generation to the next, from 1480 to 1880. The book reveals how the nature and methods of artistic instruction changed over the centuries, from the guild system and the in...
Constable's White Horse (Frick Diptych, 5)
by William Kentridge and Aimee Ng
Designed to foster critical engagement and interest the specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer. The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (17761837) is the first of the series of the "six-footers," monumental landscapes of the English countryside that would become the artist's most famous works. Constable d...