Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.
Portraits of France's Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century
Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.
Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842-1871
Examines Rome's contribution to the technical and artistic development of photography up to 1871, focusing on experimental painter-photographers and the adoption of the medium as an equal branch of art.
In this book, James H. Rubin explores these conditions and shows how Monets work-said to be a harbinger of abstraction-appeals not only to the eye but also to something deep in modern consciousness. The myth of Impressionism is that it was reviled and misunderstood, but by the 1890s Monet was rich by anyones standards.
The Scientific Artworks of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and the Salpetriere School
In this book, Natasha Ruiz-Gomez delves into an extraordinary collection of pathological drawings, photographs, sculptures, and casts created by neurologists at Paris's Hopital de la Salpetriere in the nineteenth century. Led by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and known collectively as the Salpetriere School, these savants-artistes produced ......
Explores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.
Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918-1939
Some of the most striking examples of modernist architecture are churches, yet they have seldom been subject to extended critical analysis. In this book, Matthew Rampley provides just such an analysis, focusing on the Catholic Church in interwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. A powerful institution in the Habsburg Empire, the Catholic ......
American Paintings to 1950 at the Palmer Museum of Art
In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Art's fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, this multi-author book studies and celebrates the institution's most significant collection area, American art. The fully illustrated publication features short essays on ......
