Table of Contents

Preface 
Introduction 
1. Rococo, Enlightenment, and the Call for a New Art in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
2. The Classical Paradigm  
3. British Art during the Late Georgian Period 
4. Art and Revolutionary Propaganda in France 
5. The Arts under Napoleon  
6. Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century  
7. The Beginnings of Romanticism in the German-Speaking World 
8. The Importance of Landscape–British Painting in the Early-Nineteenth Century 
9. The Restoration Period and the Rejection of Classicism in France 
10. The Popularization of Art and Visual Culture in France during the July Monarchy (1830—1848)  
11. The Revolution of 1848 and the Emergence of Realism in France 
12. Progress, Modernity, and  Modernism–French Visual Culture during the Second Empire, 1852—1870 
13. Art in the German-Speaking World from the Congress of Vienna to the German Empire, 1815—1871 
14. Art in Victorian Britain, 1837—1901  
15. National Pride and International Rivalry–the Great International Expositions  
16. French Art after the Commune–Conservative and Modernist Trends  
17. French Avant-Garde Art in the 1880s
18. When the Eiffel Tower Was New
19. France during La Belle Epoque 
20. International Trends c. 1920 
Timeline 
Glossary 
Bibliography 
Picture Credits 
Index 

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This highly respected introduction to 19th Century art looks at art in the context of the culture in which it was produced.

About the Author

"Petra ten-Doesschate Chu"is a leading authority on nineteenth-century art. She is a professor in the Department of Art and Music at SetonHallUniversity, and author of many articles and book essays. Managing Editor of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, she is also President of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. Chuis the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including two National Endowment for the Humanities Research grants, a Jane and Morgan Whitney Art History Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Her other books include French Realism and the Dutch Masters and Courbet in Perspective

Reviews

This is the story, in pictures and words, of the art of Europe when talent and time converged to create an explosive and enduring mix as intense as the century in which it unfolded. Chu (art history, Seton Hall Univ.; French Realism and the Dutch Masters) superbly conveys the interconnectedness of art, history, culture, society, and politics in easy-to-digest fashion. A broad selection of issues and artists-including such luminaries as Goya, Delacroix, Ruskin, and Caspar David Friedrich-are brought together and accorded a commonality that transcends their styles and sentiments. Chu approaches Europe's century of unprecedented social and political change in 20 chronologically arranged chapters, taking readers from the emergence of Rococo to the Paris Exposition of 1900. The lives of individual artists are seamlessly incorporated into the broader intellectual and artistic stage. With more than 500 illustrations (200 in color) and sidebars focusing on specific topics, the volume is well assembled, eloquently written, and deeply engaging. This era is already well covered, but this new volume is among the best single-volume resources. Recommended for public and academic libraries.-Edward K. Owusu-Ansah, CUNY Coll. of Staten Island Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.