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Item Number: 109451
Title: An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art
Author: Facos, Michelle
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780415780704
Description: London and New York: Routledge, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 544pp. Publisher's summary : 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. The book expertly balances its coverage of trends and individual artworks: where the salient trends are clear, trend-setting works are highlighted, and the complexity of the period is respected by situating all works in their proper social and historical context. In this way, the student reader achieves a more nuanced understanding of the way in which the story of nineteenth-century art is the story of the ways in which artists and society grappled with the problem of modernity. ^Available April 2011, further details forthcoming^.
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