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This book traces some key developments in British 18th- and 19th-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection. Compare what rival portrait painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds offered their sitters: the choice between shimmering colours and expressive brushwork, or ennobling classical references. Their techniques and philosophical ideals would be challenged and developed even further by the next generati...

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 It features many previously unpublished works, ranging from informal preparatory drawings for paintings and sculptures to highly finished exhibition watercolors.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.

The modernist aesthetic and, later, Nazi ideology split German Romantic painting into two opposed phases, an early progressive movement, represented by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), and a later reactionary one - epitomized by Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) and Peter von Cornelius (1783-1867). In this rich and engaging book, Mitchell Frank explores the continuities between these two phases to reconstruct the historical position that existed in the nineteen...

Repainting the work of another into one’s own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. Artists working in nineteenth-century London were in a peculiar position: based in an imperial metropole, yet undervalued by their competitors in continental Europe. Many claimed that Britain had yet to produce a viable national school of art. Using pictures-within-pictures, British painters challenged these claims and...

145 Briefe des Malers, darunter 54 bisher unveröffentlichte, in privaten und öffentlichen Archiven entdeckte Schriftstücke, zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild von Leistikows Leben und Wirken. Seine Schreiben an berühmte Zeitgenossen wie Gerhart Hauptmann, Theodor Wolff, Harry Graf Kessler, Edvard Munch und Richard Dehmel entführen in das kulturelle Treiben Berlins und offenbaren vergnügliche, nachdenkliche sowie alltägliche Begebenheiten. Neben den vollständig abgedruckten und kenntnisreich komme...

The second of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. "1600...

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,...

Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen von Materialien und Techniken der Malerei sowie den Verschiebungen ästhetischer und wissenschaftlicher Vorstellungen zur Farbe zwischen 1750 und 1850. In dieser Zeitspanne ist ein Bruch mit der Tradition festzustellen, der dazu geführt hat, dass die Gemälde nicht nur eine Vielfalt an Maltechniken und -materialien aufweisen, sondern auch ungewöhnliche Alterungsschäden offenbaren. Annik Pietsch untersucht, ob Interdependenzen zwische...

India in Art in Ireland is the first book to address how the relationship between these two ends of the British Empire played out in the visual arts. It demonstrates that Irish ambivalence about British imperialism in India complicates the assumption that colonialism precluded identifying with an exotic other. Examining a wide range of media, including manuscript illuminations, paintings, prints, architecture, stained glass, and photography, its authors demonstrate the complex nature of empire i...

This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of "Creole," a label applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole" implies that the geography of one's birth determines identity in ways that supersede race, language, nation, and social status. Paradoxically, the very capaciousness of the term engendered a perpetual search for visual signs of racial difference as well as a pretense to blindness about the intermingling of...

This title features Card Planners, 215 x 205 mm, wiro-bound, 24 flittered greeting cards with envelopes, and address book.

This is your A to Z guide to art! From cave paintings to pop art and modern masterpieces, this absorbing and beautiful art encyclopedia explores the development of art in spectacular detail. Here's what you'll find inside the pages of this visually stunning art book:- Covers every major movement in art from prehistory to the present day- Each movement is tracked in a visual timeline that showcases its key paintings and notable artists and explains its context - the major events in its evolution-...

Philadelphia on Stone is the first work in over fifty years to examine the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. The capstone to the Library Company of Philadelphia's multifaceted Philadelphia on Stone project, this heavily illustrated volume of thematic essays provides an analysis of the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 1878; biographies of premier lithographers P. S. Duval and James Queen; and new insights about genres...

Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to "regain" Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish "citizens" the pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles' fascination with and appropriation of...

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 1750–2000 ist eine wegweisende Anthologie, die drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Kunst anhand einer breiten Auswahl historischer Texte vorstellt, darunter u. a. Schriften von Künstler*innen, Kritiker*innen, Mäzen*innen und Literat*innen. Durch die Zusammenstellung der Texte mit hochwertigen Reproduktionen von Kunstwerken bietet das Buch eine unverzichtbare Grundlage für das Verständnis der bildenden Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten. Erläuternde Einleitungen, kontextbezo...

„Ein Bild rührt uns, als Kunstwerk betrachtet, nur durch das, was wirklich dargestellt ist. Was wir uns dabey denken, gehört nicht ihm, sondern uns an." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) „Mein Gemälde beruht auf der Tatsache, dass nur dasjenige anwesend ist, was auch gese-hen werden kann." (Frank Stella) Mehr als eineinhalb Jahrhunderte liegen diese Zitate auseinander, und beide fordern das selbstbezügliche, deshalb ohne Zusatzwissen und ohne Bezugnahme auf nicht im Bild Sichtbares verständliche K...

Sheridan's most successful play, often considered the apex of English comedy.

The renowned scholar Rudiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. Safranski begins with the eighteenth century Sturm und Drang movement, which would sow the seeds for Romanticism in Germany. While Romanticism was a broad artistic, literary, and intellectual movement, German thinkers were especially concerned with its strong philosophical-metaphysica...