A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art
by Michelle Facos
1st Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781118856369 |
| eText ISBN | 9781118856352 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publishing Year | 2018 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 560 |
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, 1st Edition, is an anthology that reconsiders the international art world of the nineteenth century. Published by Wiley-Blackwell, the volume counters a Paris-centric perspective by highlighting significant artistic developments beyond French borders.
Contributors explore the practical and social circumstances that shaped artistic careers. The text examines how artists learned their craft, met clients, and responded to professional opportunities and challenges, while also considering where the public and critics experienced their work.
The collection also emphasizes questions of individual, ethnic, gender, and religious identity across modern visual culture. It explores how these diverse perspectives influenced creative choices and shaped the ways artists and viewers engaged with the nineteenth-century art world.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Moses Jacob Ezekiel's Religious Liberty (1876) and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish American Experience
Chapter 2: The Lure of “Magick Land”: British Artists and Italy in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 3: Mining the Dutch Golden Age: The Avant-Garde Enterprise
Chapter 4: “The Revenge of Art on Life”: Beauty, Modernity, and Edward Burne-Jones's King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Chapter 5: Show and Tell: Exhibition Practice in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6: Networked: The Art Market in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 7: German Art Academies and their Impact on Artistic Style
Chapter 8: “Orientalism” in Art: The Case of John Frederick Lewis
Chapter 9: Wall to Wall: Zones of Artistic Engagement in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Chapter 10: “Like a Dog, Just Looking”: Cézanne, Innocence, and Early Phenomenological Thought in Nineteenth-Century France
Chapter 11: Aesthetic Religion, Religious Aesthetics, and the Romantic Quest for Epiphany
Chapter 12: The Wanderers and Realism in Tsarist Russia
Chapter 13: Thomas Cole and the Domestic Landscape of the Hudson River School
Chapter 14: Sculpture and the Public Imagination: Nineteenth-Century Site-Specific Art of the Cemetery, the Garden, and the Street
Chapter 15: Capturing Unconsciousness: The New Psychology, Hypnosis, and the Culture of Hysteria
Chapter 16: Impressionism and the Mirror Image
Chapter 17: Roots: Landscapes of Nationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century
Chapter 18: Australian Art in the Nineteenth-Century: Forging a National Style
Chapter 19: Tradition and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Catalan Art: From Romanticism to Picasso
Chapter 20: Principle and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Danish Landscape Painting
Chapter 21: Art and Multiculturalism in Estonia and Latvia, circa 1900
Chapter 22: Nationalism and the Myth of Hungarian Origin: Attila and Árpád
Chapter 23: In the Service of the Nation: Forging the Identity of Polish Art in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 24: Facing Modernism: Jean-Antoine Houdon and the Politics of the Portrait Bust in Eighteenth-Century France
Chapter 25: Identity Tourism: Studio Stagings in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Chapter 26: The Meaning of the Verb “To Be” in Painting: Manet's Olympia
Chapter 27: Cassatt's Singular Women: Reading Le Figaro and the Older New Woman
Chapter 28: Fashion, Lithography, and Gender Instability in Romantic-Era Paris: A Case Study
Chapter 29: Racist or Hero of Social Art?: Degas, the Birth of Sociology, and the Biopolitical Gaze
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