Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500286507 ISBN 13: 9780500286500

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2007

Synopsis

Adopted at over four hundred colleges and universities since its first publication in 1994, this book has established itself as the most popular and highly regarded textbook in the field. It embraces many aspects of the new, revised art history (its attention to issues of class and gender; its critiques of racism and Eurocentrism), but it also emphasizes the remarkable vitality and subversiveness that constitute the legacy of the best nineteenth-century art.

The third edition incorporates new chapters on design and architecture; increased coverage of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Naturalism in Germany; and a new discussion of the Vienna Secession and the challenges to Academic painting in Russia.

About this title

Review:

Handsomely illustrated....The interpretations of [the artists'] work are thoughtful.

An impressive encyclopedic volume...such vigor, clarity, and scholarship that it must be regarded as required reading.

About the Author:

Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0500286507
• ISBN 13: 9780500286500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 484