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Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century. The case studies provide not just …
The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic …
Mapping Impressionist Painting in Transnational Contexts
This book offers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of impressionism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributors rethink the role …
The Australian Art Field
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to take stock of the frictions generated by a tumultuous time in the Australian art field and to probe what the crises …
Radical Marble
Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, …
The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture
This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy …
Landscape Painting in Revolutionary France
The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening, cinematic displays of …
William Hunter and his Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds
The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant contribution to the history of collecting and the promotion of the fine arts in …
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan
This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.Through this important moment in Japanese …
The Société des Trois in the Nineteenth Century
This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trio’s coming together as the Société des …
Raymond Jonson and the Spiritual in Modernist and Abstract Painting
This is the most thorough and detailed monograph on the artwork of Raymond Jonson. He is one of many artists of the first half of the twentieth-century who demonstrate the richness …
Form and Meaning in Avant-Garde Collage and Montage
This book uses intermedial theories to study collage and montage, tracing the transformation of visual collage into photomontage in the early avant-garde period. Magda Dragu …