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by: Stephen F. Eisenman, Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David Llewellyn Phillips, Frances K. Pohl  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 709 EAN: 9780500286500 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0500286507 Label: Thames & Hudson Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 494 Publication Date: September 01, 2007 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Studio: Thames & Hudson Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "Rich in ideas and illustrations...of interest to scholars and art enthusiasts alike." —Library Journal Adopted at over four hundred colleges and universities since its first publication in 1994, this book has established itself as the most popular and highly regarded textbook in the field. It embraces many aspects of the new, revised art history (its attention to issues of class and gender; its critiques of racism and Eurocentrism), but it also emphasizes the remarkable vitality and subversiveness that constitute the legacy of the best nineteenth-century art. The third edition incorporates new chapters on design and architecture; increased coverage of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Naturalism in Germany; and a new discussion of the Vienna Secession and the challenges to Academic painting in Russia. In addition to Stephen F. Eisenman, the contributors are Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David Llewellyn Phillips, and Frances K. Pohl. 496 illustrations, 193 in color. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - greatgreat book. this actually enables you to understand what the 19th Century art and influences were about. Through its critical review, the writing and approach to it is fantastic. The best art history book I have read! Rating:  - Decent book for the priceI recently purchased this book A) Because it was alot cheaper than my college bookstore's price, and B) Because it was mandatory for the class I'm taking. The book covers alot of the information for the 1800s in the art world. I like to actually see the work of art when it's being discussed, so the lack of images is a little annoying. Rating: - Impressed As this is a textbook for a course I'm taking, I was pleasantly surprised to find a copy well !!! below the current bookstore price and delighted when the book arrived extraordinarily promptly. Rating:  - Skip it.I too had this book for a college 19th century art course. Most of the movements were not new to me and I dearly love most art of the period. But for anyone new to it this will be an incredibly boring read, too much bogged down in marxism and political correctness. Eisenman; a self-professed "Marxist-Art Historian" seems unable to speak of any movement without making it into classs warfare or accusing artists of being sexist or rascist, while completely ingnoring the historical context. As with many ... Read More Rating: - Academic overview of nineteenth century artThis is a text based overview of art in the 1800's. It has a text to picture ratio similar to that in Art by Hartt. It has a similar (but obviously more specific) audience. Reproductions are high quality. Most are black and white - maybe 20 percent color. Here the color plates are mixed throughout the book, instead of all together in one color section. So all the thematically similar pictures are grouped together with the information about them. Read through the chapter titles and if you like ... Read More 
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