Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880

Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1780-1880
Author: Fritz Novotny
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300053210

From the Classicism of Jacques-Louis David to the Realism of Courbet and the Early Impressionism of Renoir, this book outlines the course taken by painting and sculpture in Europe during the 19th century. Faced with the untidy sprawl of individualism which followed the French Revolution and threw up isolated geniuses like Goya, the author nevertheless charts the currents in what was predominantly a century of Naturalism and also - whilst artists were increasingly preoccupied with the inner man - of great landscape-painting when Friedrich, Corot and the Impressionists proper added light and atmosphere to the former achievements of the great Dutch masters.

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940
Author: George Heard Hamilton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300056495

This new edition of 'a book that offers the best available grounding in its huge subject,' as the Sunday Times called it, includes color plates and a revised and expanded bibliography. Professor Hamilton traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The result is an authoritative guide through the forest of artistic labels-Impressionism and Expressionism, Symbolism, Cubism, Constructivism, Surrealism, etc.-and to the achievements of Degas and Cezanne, Ensor and Munch, Matisse and Kandinsky, Picasso, Braque, and Epstein, Mondrian, Dali, Modigliani, Utrillo and Chagall, Klee, Henry Moore, and many other artists in a revolutionary age.

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789
Author: Michael Levey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300064940

Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galante and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.

Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture

Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture
Author: Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011-02-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0810874741

The Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture provides an overview of Neoclassicism, focusing on its major artists, architects, stylistic subcategories, ideas, and historical framework of the 18th century style found mainly in Europe and the United States. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 200 dictionary entries on famous artists, sculptors, architects, patrons, and other historical figures and events.

Modern Theories of Art: From impressionism to Kandinsky

Modern Theories of Art: From impressionism to Kandinsky
Author: Moshe Barasch
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 081471272X

In this volume, the third in his classic series of texts surveying the history of art theory, Moshe Barasch traces the hidden patterns and interlocking themes in the study of art, from Impressionism to Abstract Art. Barasch details the immense social changes in the creation, presentation, and reception of art which have set the history of art theory on a vertiginous new course: the decreased relevance of workshops and art schools; the replacement of the treatise by the critical review; and the interrelation of new modes of scientific inquiry with artistic theory and praxis. The consequent changes in the ways in which critics as well as artists conceptualized paintings and sculptures were radical, marked by an obsession with intense, immediate sensory experiences, psychological reflection on the effects of art, and a magnetic pull to the exotic and alien, making for the most exciting and fertile period in the history of art criticism.

Stages of European Romanticism

Stages of European Romanticism
Author: Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1640140425

Employs an innovative approach by stages to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century of its growth and decline.