For one-semester courses in 19th-Century Art, and two-semester courses that cover the periods of 1760-1830 and 1830-1900. This much-needed 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 ...
The modern artist strives to be independent of the public taste - and yet depends on the public for a living. Petra Chu argues that the French Realist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) understood this dilemma perhaps better than any painter before him. In "The Most Arrogant Man in France", the first comprehensive reinterpretation of Courbet in a ...
This book presents an interdisciplinary and inclusive view of nineteenth-century art, observed from the vantage point of the new twenty-first century. The areas of expertise represented by these twenty-eight essays span the full range of nineteenth-century studies, and include discussions of such artistic styles as romanticism, realism, ...
The catalogue for an exhibit organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and scheduled for several locations during 1995 and 1996. The period under consideration was significant for the variety of influences between painting in France and in the US, especially in the field of genre. An introducti
This study addresses 19th-century European art along with the forces that informed it. After introducing historical events and cultural and artistic trends from about 1760 that would exert their influence well into the new century, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu discusses the advent of modernism and its many interpretations. She considers the changing ...
The portentous, eighteen-year period (1830-1848) in the history of French revolution known as the July Monarchy was circumscribed by the rule of Louis Philippe d'Orleans and was characterized by the political and social ascendancy of the bourgeoisie. Accompanying this brief and transitional stage was a phenomenal increase in printed media, ...
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