Konsthistoria / konst- & designstilar ca 1800 – ca 1900

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the …

Mae’r gyfrol hon yn cynnig golwg newydd ar ddelweddau cyfarwydd y ffotograffydd John Thomas (1838–1905), wrth eu gosod yng nghyd-destun llenyddol a syniadol Cymru yn ystod ail …

Zwischen den 1830er und 1870er Jahren zeichnete, kritzelte und kleckste der französische Schriftsteller Victor Hugo auf tausenden kleinformatigen Papieren. So entstand eine Fülle …

Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890–1918 is the first book in any language to explore the Young Poland (Mloda Polska) period in the context of the international …

A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner’s early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A complex figure, and divisive …

Two artistic giants. One small house. From October to December 1888 a pair of largely unknown artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and …

This volume traces Yeats' fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, …

This vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite …

Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists' biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. During this period artists gradually distanced …

Marius de Zayas brings together a series of texts and essays published by the Mexican writer, critic, cartoonist, gallerist and curator, Marius de Zayas (1880-1961) in three very …