Books, Arts & Photography, Schools, Periods & Styles, Neoclassical

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Herschel B. Chipp
Theories of Modern Art A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art)
by University of California Press (Paperback)

Gathers interviews, articles, letters, and manifestos dealing with Postimpressionism, symbolism, fauvism, Expressionism, and cubism.

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Nineteenth Century European Art
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

This survey explores the history of nineteenth-century European art and visual culture. Focusing primarily on painting and sculpture, it places these two art forms within the larger context of visual culture–including photography, graphic design, architecture, and decorative arts. In turn, all are treated within a broad historical framework to show the connections between visual cultural production and the political, social, and economic order of the time. Topics covered include The Classical Paradigm, Art and Revolutionary Propaganda In France, The Arts under Napoleon and Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century. For art enthusiasts, or anyone who wants to learn more about Art History.

Robert Rosenblum, HW Janson
19th Century Art
by Prentice Hall (Hardcover)

Appropriate for Art majors. Originally published twenty years ago, Nineteenth Century Art, Second Edition remains true to the original, with its superior survey of Western painting and sculpture presented in four historical parts, beginning in 1776 and ending with the dawn of the new century. This text draws on the historical documentation of the period, tracing the dynamics of the making and viewing of art, and examining the reciprocal influences of art and technology, art and politics, art and literature, art and music.

Charles Harrison, Paul J. Wood, Jason Gaiger
Art in Theory: 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas
by Wiley-Blackwell (Paperback)

Robert Atkins
ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944
by Abbeville Press (Paperback)

A dictionary of modern art terms, covering such art trends as impressionism, surrealism, futurism, and fauvism.

Stephen F. Eisenman, Thomas E. Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, ...
Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History
by Thames & Hudson (Hardcover)

In art as in music, literature, philosophy, and political economy, the nineteenth century was a period of questioning, experimentation, discovery, and modernization. From Goya to Blake, from David to Delacroix, from Courbet to Cezanne, artists explored the links between perception and history, and in so doing challenged the prevailing definitions of art and the existing order of society. First published in 1994, this innovative and groundbreaking survey details the development of a critical perspective in nineteenth-century painting and sculpture. For the revised edition, a new introduction by Stephen F. Eisenman provides a cogent overview of the century, its issues, and its art. Three completely new chapters have been added, which discuss photography and its crucial role in nineteenth-century art; American and German landscape painting and its effect on the growth of romantic nationalism in each country; and Toulouse-Lautrec, whose popular appeal consists both in his work's ...

The Challenge of the Avant-Garde (Art and Its Histories, 4)
by Yale University Press (Hardcover)

This book examines the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early- and mid-nineteenth century, the development of the avant-garde through the early twentieth century, and its eventual incorporation into the modern canon by the eve of World War II. Throughout this history Paul Wood relates the discourse of artistic avant-gardism to contemporary social and political thought.

Siegfried Wichmann
Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858
by Thames & Hudson (Paperback)

Japan's impact on Western art was as immediate and almost as cataclysmic as the influence of the West on Japanese life. After Commodore Perry opened Japan's door to the outside world in 1858--ending a 200-year period of total isolation--a wealth of visual information from the superb Japanese traditions of ceramics, metalwork, and architecture, as well as print-making and painting, reached the West and brought electrifying new ideas on composition, color, and design. One has only to see a celebrated painting by Monet, Degas, Whistler, or van Gogh, an Art Nouveau glass vase, or a lacquered hair comb side by side with its Japanese source to see how those ideas have inspired artists. Nor is the influence a superficial one: Japanese conventions of symbolism underlie the use of decorative motifs in European Symbolism and Art Nouveau, and the Zen idea of spontaneity is the ultimate source of both the apparently capricious shapes of Art Nouveau ware and the development of an abstract ...

Post-Impressionism to World War II (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History)
by Wiley-Blackwell (Hardcover)

Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” criticism. Collects the most important writings on art history from Post-Impressionism to the mid-20th century, covering both canonical and contemporary perspectives Offers a chronicle of avant-garde practice during an especially creative, if volatile, period of history Features several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger Includes recent critical interventions from a range of methodological perspectives – both well-known and less familiar Organizes material thematically, and features introductory essays to each of the five sections Provides a valuable, stimulating resource for students and teachers alike and offers new ways to think about and teach this important period in art history.

Janis Angela Tomlinson
Readings in Nineteenth-Century Art
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

This chronological anthology of recent critical scholarship on 19th-century European art represents a wide range of current methodologies and issues. The book features recent scholarship — since the mid-1980s; represents a diversity of methods; deals with major figures of 19th-century art; emphasizes French art — reflecting the interests of recent scholarship and a contemporary focus; and focuses on the concerns of recent scholarship — e.g., the recurrence of themes such as the female nude, the role of the critic, and exhibitions and institutions.

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