Nineteenth Century Art : A Critical History

by Eisenman, Stephen F.; Crow, Thomas E.; Lukacher, Brian (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780500236758
• ISBN10: 0500236755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Art and History	7	(7)
Classicism and Romanticism
Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres	14	(37)
Thomas Crow
Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix	51	(27)
Thomas Crow
The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya	78	(20)
Visionary History Painting: Blake and His Contemporaries	98	(17)
Brian Lukacher
Nature Historicized: Constable, Turner, and Romantic Landscape Painting	115	(29)
Brain Lukacher
New World Frontiers
Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier	144	(19)
Frances K. Pohl
Black and White in America	163	(25)
Frances K. Pohl
Realism and Naturalism
The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere	188	(18)
The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde	206	(19)
The Decline of History Painting: Germany, Italy, and France	225	(13)
Modern Art and Life
Manet and the Impressionists	238	(17)
Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins	255	(19)
Linda Nochlin
Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism	274	(14)
Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh	288	(16)
Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat	304	(33)
The Failure and Success of Cezanne	337	(14)
Chronology	351	(14)
Selected Bibliography	365	(3)
List of Illustrations	368	(5)
Index	373