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Nineteenth-Century Art
All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.
Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection.
Exh. cat.
Sarasota:
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780916758561)
Visions: Gauguin and His Time.
Van Gogh Studies, vol. 3.
Zwolle:
Waanders Publishers and Van Gogh Museum,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9789040076596)
Allan, Scott, and Mary Morton, eds.
Reconsidering Gérôme.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
2010.
many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$26.50
(9781606060384)
Altshuler, Bruce.
Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History; Volume 1, 1863–1959.
London:
Phaidon,
2009.
410 pp.; 180 color ills.; 322 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780714844053)
Ausoni, Alberto.
Music in Art.
Trans. Stephen Sartarelli.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369652)
Baetjer, Katharine.
British Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875.
Exh. cat.
New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2010.
145 color ills.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780300155099)
Bann, Stephen, Linda Whiteley, John Guy, Christopher Riopelle, and Anne Robbins.
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey.
Exh. cat.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2010.
180 pp.; 140 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9781857094794)
Barber, Peter, and Tom Harper.
Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art.
London:
The British Library,
2010.
100 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780712350921 )
Barratt, Carrie Rebora, and Lori Zabar.
American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2010.
328 pp.; 298 color ills.; 364 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300148954)
Barter, Judith A., ed.
Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
208 pp.; 196 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300141139)
Bjorkman, Gorel-Cavalli, and Janna Herder, eds.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings III.
Dutch and Flemish Paintings, vol. 3.
Stolkholm:
Nationalmuseum,
2010.
175 color ills.
Cloth
$130.00
(9789171008220)
Blake, Erin C., and Stuart Sillars.
Extending the Book: The Art of Extra-Illustration.
Exh. cat.
Washington, D.C.:
Folger Shakespeare Library,
2010.
32 pp.; 28 color ills.
Paper
$14.95
(9780295990231)
Brandlhuber, Margot Th., and Michael Buhrs, eds.
Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830–1896): Painter and Sculptor of the Victorian Age.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Prestel,
2009.
208 pp.; 130 color ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9783791343839)
Bredekamp, Horst.
Darwins Korallen: Frühe Evolutionsmodelle und die Tradition der Naturgeschichte.
Berlin:
Verlag Klaus Wagenbach,
2009.
112 pp.
Cloth
€22.50
(9783803151735)
Brettell, Richard R., and C.D. Dickerson III.
From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern.
Exh. cat.
Fort Worth, TX:
Kimbell Art Museum,
2010.
456 pp.; 296 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300144949)
Brettell, Richard R., Paul Hayes Tucker, and Natalie H. Lee.
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection.
Vol 3. The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2010.
496 pp.; 130 color ills.; 300 b/w ills.
Cloth
$125.00
(9780691145365)
Brooks, Julian.
Master Drawings Close-Up.
Los Angeles:
Getty Publications,
2010.
90 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9781606060193)
Butler, Cornelia H., and Alexandra Schwartz, eds.
Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art.
New York:
Museum of Modern Art,
2010.
Many color ills.; Many b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780870707711)
Campbell, Sara, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman.
Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art, Volume 2.
Yale University Press,
2009.
576 pp.; 250 color ills.; 350 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780300148848)
Carr, Dawson W.
El Greco to Goya: Spanish Painting.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2009.
72 pp.; 80 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9781857094602)
Cash, Sarah, ed.
Sargent and the Sea.
Exh. cat.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Corcoran Gallery of Art,
2010.
170 pp.; 100 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300143607)
Clark, Carol.
Charles Deas and 1840s America.
Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press,
2009.
248 pp.; 70 color ills.; 84 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780806140308)
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
2009.
168 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780300151039)
Dabbs, Julia K.
Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800: An Anthology.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
504 pp.; 19 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754654315)
de Pascale, Enrico.
Death and Resurrection in Art.
Trans. Anthony Shugaar.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369478)
Denney, Colleen.
Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate Publishing Company,
2009.
274 pp.; 4 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Cloth
£55.00
(9780754668794)
Di Bello, Patrizia, and Gabriel Koureas, eds.
Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate,
2010.
26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754668633)
Diez, José Luis, and Javier Barón Thaidigsmann.
Joaquin Sorolla.
New York:
Thames & Hudson,
2010.
256 pp.; 300 color ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780500976937)
Fagg, John.
On the Cusp: Stephen Crane, George Bellows, and Modernism.
Tuscaloosa:
University of Alabama Press,
2009.
280 pp.; 23 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780817316518)
Fuhrmeister, Christian, Hubertus Kohle, and Veerle Thielemans, eds.
American Artists in Munich: Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes.
Berlin:
Deutscher Kunstverlag,
2010.
272 pp.; 98 b/w ills.
Paper
$59.00
(9783422068339)
Getty, Clive F.
The Diary of J.J. Grandville and the Missouri Album: The Life of an Opposition Caricaturist and Romantic Book Illustrator in Paris under the July Monarchy.
Madison:
2010.
Many b/w ills.
Paper
$65.00
(9780838642009)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
404 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665397)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
312 pp.; 54 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754665380)
Goggin, Maureen Daly, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds.
Women and Things, 1750–1950: Gendered Material Strategies.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
396 pp.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754665502)
Gordon, Sophie.
Roger Fenton * Julia Margaret Cameron: Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
35 color ills.
Cloth
$24.50
(9781905686193)
Govier, Louise.
Hogarth to Turner: British Painting.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
80 color ills.
Cloth
$15.00
(9781857094879)
Grewe, Cordula.
Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2009.
436 pp.; 100 color ills.; 4 b/w ills.
Cloth
£65.00
(9780754606451)
Hannoosh, Michèle, ed.
Eugène Delacroix: Journal.
Paris:
José Corti,
2010.
2520 pp.
Paper
€80.00
(9782714309990)
Hargraves, Matthew.
Varieties of Romantic Experience: British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art,
2010.
344 pp.; 210 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300152920)
Hewison, Robert.
Ruskin on Venice: "The Paradise of Cities."
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
500 pp.; 25 color ills.; 105 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780300121780)
Higonnet, Anne.
A Museum of One's Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift.
Pittsburgh:
Periscope Publishing,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9781934772928)
Hill, May Brawley.
The American Impressionists in the Garden.
Exh. cat.
Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press,
2010.
136 pp.; 55 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780826516923)
Homer, William Innes, ed.
The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins.
Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
2009.
392 pp.; 33 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780691138084)
Husslein-Arco, Agnes, Jean Louis Gaillemin, Michel Hilaire, and Christiana Lange, eds.
Alfons Mucha.
New York:
Prestel,
2009.
356 pp.; 700 color ills.; 800 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9783791343563)
Koerner, Joseph Leo.
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape.
London:
Reaktion Books,
2009.
304 pp.; 68 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.00
(97818961894397)
Kopp, Édouard.
Capturing Nature's Beauty: Three Centuries of French Landscapes.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
96 pp.; 45 color ills.
Cloth
$19.95
(9780892369959)
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, and Katherine Manthorne.
Fern Hunting Among These Picturesque Mountains : Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica.
Ithaca:
Cornell University,
2010.
48 color ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9780801449208)
Koss, Juliet.
Modernism after Wagner.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
392 pp.; 14 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.50
(978-0-8166-5159-7)
Langmuir, Erika.
The National Gallery Companion Guide.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2008.
352 pp.; 234 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9781857093995)
Larson, Barbara, and Fae Brauer, eds.
The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture.
Hanover, N.H.:
Dartmouth College Press,
2009.
348 pp.; 84 ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9781584657750 )
Lecomte, Vanessa, ed.
Portrait of a Lady: Peintures et photographies américaines en France, 1870–1915.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Terra Foundation for American Art,
2009.
152 pp.; 80 color ills.
Cloth
$49.00
(9780932171559)
Lees, Sarah.
Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris.
Exh. cat.
Ferrara and Williamstown:
Ferrara Arte S.p.A and Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
2010.
232 pp.; 134 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780300134117)
Lord, Peter.
The Meaning of Pictures: Images of Personal, Social and Political Identity.
Cardiff, UK:
University of Wales Press,
2010.
256 pp.; 70 color ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780708322215)
Lyden, Anne M.
The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2010.
172 pp.; 137 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780892369881)
Mazaroff, Stanley.
Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur.
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2010.
14 color ills.; 18 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780801895128)
McNamara, Carole.
The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850–1874.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Hudson Hills Press in association with University of Michigan Museum of Art,
2009.
208 pp.; many color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9781555953256 )
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna.
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
208 pp.; 89 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780226520780)
Murphy, Paula.
Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
60 color ills.; 250 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780300159097)
Murray, Peter, ed.
Daniel Maclise, 1806–1870: Romancing the Past.
Exh. cat.
Dublin:
Gandon Editions,
2009.
256 pp.
Cloth
$82.50
(9780948037665)
Ormond, Richard, and Elaine Kilmurray.
John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898–1913.
Vol. 6. Complete Paintings.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
2009.
272 pp.; 256 color ills.; 18 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300141405)
Pisano, Ronald G., and Carolyn K. Lane.
William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil.
Vol. The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916).
Yale University Press in association with Pisano/Chase Catalogue Raisonne Project,
2009.
192 pp.; 219 color ills.; 48 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300110203)
Pisano, Ronald G.
William Merritt Chase.
Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old Masters, and Drawings, vol. 4.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
127 color ills.; 211 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300110197)
Price, Aimée Brown.
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
2 vols.
Yale University Press,
2010.
450 pp.; 1 ills.
Cloth
$250.00
(9780300115710)
Riggs, Timothy.
At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam Since 1750; Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection.
Exh. cat.
Chapel Hill:
Ackland Art Museum,
2009.
52 pp.; 36 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9780807859803)
Robertson, Bruce, ed.
Sargent and Italy.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
2010.
208 pp.; 85 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9780691139449)
Savage, Kirk.
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2009.
408 pp.; 126 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9780520256545)
Schildgen, Brenda Deen.
Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe.
New York:
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
288 pp.; Few b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780230603295 )
Schnapp, Jeffrey T., ed.
Speed Limits.
Exh. cat.
Milan:
Skira,
2010.
320 pp.; 141 ills.
Paper
$39.00
(9788857201757)
Shepherd, Stanley A.
The Stained Glass of A.N.W. Pugin.
Reading, UK:
Spire Books,
2009.
443 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(9781904965206)
Siegel, Elizabeth.
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Art Institute of Chicago,
2009.
200 pp.; 140 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300141146)
Siegel, Elizabeth.
The Marvelous Album of Madame B: Being the Handiwork of a Victorian Lady of Considerable Talent.
London:
Scala Publishers,
2009.
64 pp.; 65 color ills.
Cloth
$18.95
(9781857595796)
Siegfried, Susan L.
Ingres: Painting Reimagined.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
520 pp.; 40 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300148831)
Sill, Gertrude Grace.
John Haberle: American Master of Illusion.
Exh. cat.
New Britain, Conn.:
New Britain Museum of American Art,
2010.
116 pp.; 46 ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780972449717)
Smith, Paul, ed.
Seurat Re-viewed.
Refiguring Modernism, edited by Mark Cheetham, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Janet Lyon, and Mark Morrison.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2010.
288 pp.; 21 color ills.; 49 b/w ills.
Paper
$85.00
(9780271035451)
Stavitsky, Gail, and Katherine Rothkopf.
Cézanne and American Modernism.
Exh. cat.
Baltimore and New Haven:
Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2009.
376 pp.; 190 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300147155)
Stein, Susan Alyson, and Asher Ethan Miller, eds.
Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, New Edition.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2010.
352 pp.; 100 color ills.; 185 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300124026)
Stoichita, Victor I., ed.
La Sombra.
Exh. cat.
Madrid:
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid,
2010.
318 pp.; Many color ills.
Paper
(978-8496233683)
Stott, Annette, and Holly Koons McCullough.
Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914.
Savannah, Ga.:
Telfair Museum of Art,
2009.
288 pp.
Cloth
$59.95
(9780933075115)
Thurber, T. Barton.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
Hanover, NH and Lebanon, NH:
Hood Museum of Art and University Press of New England,
2010.
232 pp.; 190 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9781584657248)
Tolles, Thayer.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2009.
80 pp.; 68 color ills.; 22 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780300151886)
Trebilcock, Evelyn D., and Valerie A. Balint.
Glories of the Hudson: Frederic Edwin Church's Views from Olana.
Exh. cat.
Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press,
2009.
96 pp.; 83 color ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(9780801448430)
Tseng, Alice Y.
The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2009.
304 pp.; 39 color ills.; 52 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295987774)
Vakkari, Johanna, ed.
Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe.
Vol. 38. Series: Studies in Art History.
Helsinki:
Society of Art History,
2009.
176 pp.; 20 color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
(9789525533101)
Van der Veen, Wouter.
Van Gogh: A Literary Mind.
Vol. 2. Series: Van Gogh Studies.
Zwolle, Netherlands and Amsterdam:
Waanders and Van Gogh Museum,
2010.
250 pp.; 20 ills.
Cloth
€44.95
(9789040085628)
Warner, Malcolm.
Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait: "May Sartoris" by Frederic Leighton.
Fort Worth:
Kimbell Art Museum,
2009.
88 pp.; 40 color ills.; 8 b/w ills.
Paper
$16.95
(9780300121353)
Williams, Barbara.
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada: The Journals, Letters, and Art of Anne Langton.
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press,
2008.
436 pp.; 26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780802035493)
Wrigley, Richard, ed.
Regarding Romantic Rome.
New York:
Peter Lang,
2007.
213 pp.; 16 b/w ills.; 16 ills.
Paper
$63.95
(9783039111206)
Yeldham, Charlotte.
Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820): Artist and Evangelical.
Burlington, VT:
Ashgate,
2010.
230 pp.; 73 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754669913)
Zarobell, John.
Empire of Landscape: Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2010.
216 pp.; 45 color ills.; 38 b/w ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780271034430)