History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 books

A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family...  Read More >>

A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family...  Read More >>

Maureen Scott, the revolutionary artist whose work opened Tate's acclaimed Women in Revolt! exhibition, was the...  Read More >>

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchner's intention that they belong...  Read More >>

These reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich by fellow romantic painters and poets give a fascinating picture of...  Read More >>

The Romantic Era was a particularly splendid epoch in miniature portraiture. A host of artists created portraits...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging study of the intertwined notions of home and homeland that were central to the art and material culture...  Read More >>

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""An authoritative, beautifully illustrated study.""—Kirkus Reviews The first comprehensive study of Cassatt's...  Read More >>

This book redefines the roots of German radicalism and the avant-garde, uncovering how professional politics linked...  Read More >>

An engaging account of Britain's greatest painter, told through works from the Yale Center for British Art's extensive...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of domesticity in the Intimiste...  Read More >>

An unprecedented volume featuring over two hundred drawings by twenty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists....  Read More >>

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Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices....  Read More >>

From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody...  Read More >>

A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the...  Read More >>

In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the ""pure photographs"" of California art photography society...  Read More >>

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This book is a wonderful introduction to the life and work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading light of French Impressionism....  Read More >>

More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many...  Read More >>

First published in 1952, John Constable and the Fishers is based on original letters which have never been published...  Read More >>

At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City philanthropist, arts patron, and scholar Archer M. Huntington...  Read More >>

Essays bilingual (English/German) / Catalog raisonné monolingual (German) Friedrich von Amerling (1803–1887)...  Read More >>

This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life...  Read More >>