Nineteenth Century Art : A Critical History

by Eisenman, Stephen F.; Crow, Thomas E.; Lukacher, Brian; Nochlin, Linda; Phillips, David L.; Pohl, Frances K.

• ISBN13: 9780500237939
• ISBN10: 050023793X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

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 novel technique and medium and in its exotic sexual perspectives.

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Author Biography

Brian Lukacher is Associate Professor of Art History at Vassar College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Art and History	7	(11)
CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM
Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres	18	(37)
Thomas Crow
Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix	55	(27)
Thomas Crow
The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya	82	(20)
Visionary History Painting: Blake and His Contemporaries	102	(17)
Brian Lukacher
Nature Historicized: Constable, Turner, and Romantic Landscape Painting	119	(24)
Brian Lukacher
Landscape Art and Romantic Nationalism in Germany and America	143	(17)
Brian Lukacher
NEW WORLD FRONTIERS
Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier	160	(19)
Frances K. Pohi
Black and White in America	179	(25)
Frances K. Pohi
REALISM AND NATURALISM
The Generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere	204	(18)
The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde	222	(19)
Photography, Modernity, and Art	241	(28)
David Llewellyn Phillips
The Decline of History Painting: Germany, Italy, and France	269	(13)
MODERN ART AND LIFE
Manet and the Impressionists	282	(17)
Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins	299	(19)
Linda Nochlin
Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimpressionism	318	(14)
The Appeal of Modern Art: Toulouse-Lautrec	332	(8)
Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh	340	(16)
Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat	356	(33)
The Failure and Success of Cezanne	389	(14)
Chronology	403	(11)
Selected Bibliography	414	(4)
List of Illustrations	418	(6)
Index	424