An introduction to nineteenth century art

Using The Tools Of The New Art History (feminism, Marxism, Social Context, Etc.) An Introduction To Nineteenth-century Art Offers A Richly Textured, Yet Clear And Logical, Introduction To Nineteenth-century Art And Culture. This Textbook Will Provide Readers With A Basic Historical Framework Of The Period And The Critical Tools For Interpreting And Situating New And Unfamiliar Works Of Art. Michelle Facos Goes Beyond Existing Histories Of Nineteenth-century Art, Which Often Focus Solely On France, Britain, And The United States, To Incorporate Artists And Artworks From Scandinavia, Germany, And Eastern Europe.--pub. Desc. Chapter 1: A Time Of Transition ; Social Critique ; Moral Reform ; Monarch As Model ; Era Of Change ; Age Of Discovery ; Grand Tour ; Antiquity Becomes Fashionable ; Neoclassical Style ; Calm Grandeur In Dante -- Chapter 2: Classical Influences And Radical Transformations ; Neoclassicm In Britain ; Neoclassicism Becomes Popular ; The Elgin Marbles ; Homer Illustrations ; Political Instability In France ; D'angiviller's Reform Program ; Roman Virtue ; Neoclassical Eroticism ; Neoclassical Sculpture ; Neoclassicism In Denmark And The German States -- Chapter 3: Re-presenting Contemporary History ; Legitimizing Contemporary History ; Painting Of Contemporary History In France ; Political Instability ; New Hero For A New Republic ; Equestrian Portraits: Rulers On Horseback ; Neoclassicism Made Ridiculous ; Legitimizing Bonaparte ; Transgressive History Painting ; Representing Republican Values ; Establishing Museums -- Chapter 4: Romanticism ; Origins And Characteristics ; Burke's Sublime ; Blake And The Imagination ; Nature Mysticism ; Goya: Ambiguity And Modernism ; Abnormal Mental States ; Sculpture ; Escape To The National Past: England ; Medievalism In France: Troubadour Style ; Medievalism In The German States ; The Nazarenes -- Chapter 5: Shifting Focus: Art And The Natural World ; New Attitudes Toward Nature ; Academic Landscape Tradition ; Nature And The Sublime ; The Picturesque ; Turner: From Convention To Innovation ; Constable: Conservative Nostalgia ; Naturalism And Tourism ; Friedrich: Patriotism And Spirituality ; Feminization Of Nature ; Hudson River School ; American West -- Chapter 6: Colonialism, Imperialism, Orientalism ; Documenting Distant Lands And People ; Colonial Citizens ; Picturing Slavery ; Native Americans: Ideal Or Foe? ; Orientalism Emerges ; Orient Imagined ; Delacroix's Orientalism ; Orientalist Sculpture ; International Exhibitions. Chapter 7: New Audiences, New Approaches ; Modernism, Urbanization, Instability ; Bourgeois Morality And The Separation Of Spheres ; Biedermeier And The Emergence Of Middle Class Culture ; Biedermeier Portraiture ; Biedermeier Cityscapes ; Biedermeier Peasant Painting ; Biedermeier Landscape ; Biedermeier History Painting ; Golden Age In Denmark ; Biedermeier In Russia ; Mid-century America ; Victorian Painting ; Pre-raphaelite Brotherhood ; Municipal Art Associations -- Chapter 8: Photography As Fact And Fine Art ; Invention Of Photography ; Documenting Current Events ; Social Reform ; Photography And Science ; Portraiture ; Landscape ; Travel ; Photography As A Fine Art ; Pictorialism And New Technologies -- Chapter 9: Realism And The Urban Poor ; Contrasting Responses To 1848 ; Urban Migration ; Social Unrest ; Alcoholism ; Female Suicide ; Middle Class Working Women ; Poor Working Women ; Prostitution ; Documenting Work ; Idealized Labor ; Oppressed Workers ; Reforming The Poor ; Chapter 10: Imagined Communities: Views Of Peasant Life ; Peasant Identity ; Peasant Imagery Before 1848 ; Courbet's Burial: More Than Just A Funeral ; Academically Acceptable Peasant Images ; Powerful Peasants: Heroic Or Threatening? ; Pitiable Peasants ; Idealized Peasants ; Grim Realities. Chapter 11: Crisis In The Academy ; The Importance Of Titles ; History Painting And Autobiography: Courbet ; The Situation Of Women Artists ; Salon Of 1863 And Salon Des Refuses ; Salon Of 1865 ; Sculpture And Politics ; Foreign Artists In Paris ; Art Academies In Austria And The German States ; Menzel And Academic Realism ; World's Fairs -- Chapter 12: Impressionism ; Truth ; Haussmannization ; New Paris ; Flâneurs And Boulevardiers ; Experimentation ; Old Paris ; Bourgeois Leisure ; Café Society ; Suburban Industry ; Suburban Leisure ; Natural And Acquired Identities ; Gare Saint Lazare ; Seaside Resorts ; Beaches, Bathing, And Hygiene ; Cézanne And Postimpressionism ; The Macchiaioli -- Chapter 13: Symbolism ; Symbolist Precursors ; Animate Nature ; Music ; Music And Genius ; Rodin: Abstract Ideas In Human Form ; Pessimistic Withdrawal ; Women: Angels Or Whores? ; Imagination Out Of Control ; Virgin Mothers ; Social Pessimism ; Memory And Degeneration ; Gauguin: Seeking But Never Finding ; Van Gogh: Expressing Nature ; Genius And Creativity ; Beyond The Five Senses -- Chapter 14: Individualism And Collectivism ; Artists' Colonies ; Pont Aven ; Worpswede ; Skagen ; Artist Organizations ; Society Of Independent Artists ; The Nabis ; Rose + Croix ; Les Xx ; National Identity ; France: Monet's Cathedrals ; Russia ; Serbia ; Poland ; Finland ; Hungary. Michelle Facos. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.