Arts of the 19th Century

by Francoise Cachin; Genevieve Lacambre; William Vaughan

• ISBN13: 9780810919877
• ISBN10: 0810919877
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc

Summary

The second half of the 19th century was a period of rapid change. This era of optimistic industrial achievement and scientific invention inspired new and diverse artistic movements, and saw the dawn of the skyscraper, the automobile, and the cinema. This volume explores the wide-ranging artistic eclecticism of the age by tracing and illustrating fine and decorative art movements from Realism, Impressionism, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Art Nouveau to primitivism and Expressionism. Overflowing with superb illustrations, this monumental book encompasses a stunning variety of painting, sculpture, architecture and town planning, photography, and the decorative arts -- furniture, glass, metalwork, textiles, and more -- on both sides of the Atlantic. The text is by curators from the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, a museum specializing in 19th-century art. It offers unparalleled insights and documentation that make this the most comprehensive volume on the period.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	8	(13)
Francoise Cachin
PAINTING	21	(170)
Genevieve Lacambre	23	(30)
The Salon Years	23	(21)
The Impressionist Period	44	(9)
Rodolphe Rapetti	53	(138)
1885-1905: A Fresh Context	53	(7)
The Impressionists after 1886	60	(3)
National Schools and Naturalism	63	(4)
Symbolism	67	(6)
New Aesthetics	73	(118)
SCULPTURE	191	(86)
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain	193	(22)
Sculpture under the Second Empire (1852-70)	193	(1)
Neoclassicism	193	(6)
The Last Romantics	199	(4)
Neo-Medieval and Religious Sculpture	203	(2)
The Neo-Florentines: Michelangelo and the Renaissance	205	(2)
Eclecticism: Monumental Decoration	207	(5)
The Cult of the Great: From Cemetery to Gallery	212	(3)
Anne Pingeot	215	(23)
Realism	215	(7)
Impressionism	222	(4)
Symbolism	226	(5)
Art Nouveau	231	(2)
Expressionism	233	(3)
Primitivism	236	(2)
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The Return to Style	238	(39)
PHOTOGRAPHY	277	(52)
Philippe Neagu	280	(9)
The Invention of Photography (1816-41)	280	(1)
Pioneers and Primitives in Great Britain. The Calotype Era and the Introduction of Collodion	281	(2)
The Age of the Calotype in France and the Development of Collodion (1855-70)	283	(4)
Great Britain: Hobby Photographers and the Pictorial Model (1855-80)	287	(2)
Francoise Heilbrun	289	(40)
The Rise of American Photography (1860-80)	289	(3)
Commercial and Scientific Photography (1870-80)	292	(1)
Photographing the Instantaneous	293	(1)
Amateur Photography from 1880	294	(1)
The Pictorialist Movement in Europe and the United States	294	(5)
Outside Pictorialism	299	(30)
THE DECORATIVE ARTS	329	(54)
Marc Bascou Art and Industry (1851-89)	331	(16)
Philippe Thiebaut Art Nouveau	347	(36)
ARCHITECTURE	383	(76)
Caroline Mathieu	385	(22)
Urbanism: the Birth of the Modern Capital City	385	(5)
Eclecticism	390	(7)
Architecture in Metal	397	(7)
The International Exhibitions	404	(3)
Georges Vigne	407	(52)
Art Nouveau Architecture (1890-1914)	407	(3)
Three Architects and their Cities	410	(7)
Seaside Resorts, Spa Towns, Strasbourg, and Nancy	417	(2)
Italy	419	(1)
Great Britain	420	(1)
The Munich Group	421	(1)
The Vienna Sezession	422	(4)
The Netherlands	426	(1)
United States	426	(33)
MAPS, ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS, PLANS	459	(12)
DOCUMENTATION	471	(142)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	613	(8)
INDEX	621