19th-Century Art

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984. Cloth, 527 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Painting by Robert Rosenblum; Sculpture by H. W. Janson. Firm binding, clean text. Gift inscription/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. Most surveys of 19th-century art give short shrift to sculpture, but this volume is exceptional. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Authoritative survey of 19th-Century Art: Neoclassicism and Romanticism through Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Profusely illustrated, with several colour plates. CONTENTS: PART I: 1776-1815; Painting, Changes in history painting; France; Jacques-Louis David; Francisco de Goya y Lucientes; The rise of Romanticism in England; The Neoclassic-Romanticism Dilemma; Painting in France after David; The Image of the Ruler; Varieties of Landscape Painting; The Nazarenes; Romantic Meditations in German and England; Sculpture, England; Scandinavia; France; Antonio Canova; The early Thorvaldsen; Austria and Germany; PART II: 1815-1848; Painting, Retrospection and Introspection: the congess of Vienna and Late Goya; Theodore Gericault; Delacroix, Ingres, and the Romantic-Classic Conflict in France; Turner and Romantic Visionaries; Constable and Romantic Naturalism; From History Painting to Biedermeier; Empirical Directions; Social Observers; Sculpture, The Mature Thorvaldsen; England; United States; Italy; Germany; France; The Romantic Theory of Sculpture; PART III 1848-1870; Painting, The 1848 Revolution: some Pictorial Responses; Jean-Francois Millet; Gustave Courbet; Materialism versus Idealism; Poverty and Piety; The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; History Painting; Escapist Modes in Figure and Landscape Painting; The 1860s: Manet and Painting in Paris; Painting out of doors: Toward Impressionism; PART IV: 1870-1900; Painting, Reflections of the Frano-Prussian War; 1874: The First Impressionist Exhibition; 1874: At the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy; The 1870s: From Realism to Aetheticism; Interiors: Domestic and Erotic; Changes in History Painting and Portraiture; National Landscape; Paul Cezanne; Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionism; Vincent van Gogh; Ensor, Klinger, Redon; Pul Gauguin and the Origins of Symbolism; The 1890s: Postscript ad Prologue; fin de siecle.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.