Nineteenth-Century Art

A fifth edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout.

Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth edition of this classic book now features full-colour artworks throughout, new chapter introductions, examinations of key ideas, and other helpful pedagogical support.

Emphasizing the vitality of 19th-century art, the authors demonstrate how paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by David, Géricault, Turner, Homer, Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh and many others remain relevant today. Using evocative and lucid prose, the authors reveal how concerns about class and gender, race and ethnicity, modernity and tradition, and popular and elite culture – ideas that arose in the course of the 19th century – motivated artists and propelled the movements under review.

About the Author

Stephen Eisenman is a noted art historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art with a particular scholarly focus on the arts and crafts movement. He received a grant from the Northwestern University Graduate School (2006) to conduct travel research for the "Design in the Age of Darwin"" "exhibition. Eisenman will curate the exhibition and serve as principal author of the accompanying catalog. He lives in Chicago.