A fresh approach to the study of the theory and practice of the nineteenth-century s fine art. Fifty key art terms provide a context for copious contemporary quotations from those with direct experience of the creative process: artists, critics, writers and thinkers. The book thus avoids the hackneyed definition of major movements and artists groups, and instead discusses these through a rich diversity of attitudes to each keyword: those, for example, of the Romantic, Barbizon and Symbolist artists and their publics to issues such as exhibitions, landscape, drawing and the pervasive influence of the antique. The quotations are drawn from a wide range of sources. Chosen to exemplify particular historical, geographical, socio-political and aesthetic tendencies, these provide familiar pivotal figures to help guide the reader through a highly populated and fastchanging art world. The emphasis is on French and, to a lesser degree, British art but a range of European and North American art is also discu

Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art

Lindey, Christine

Arts & Photography

Sansom (Acc)

A new and much updated edition of David Buckman's celebrated dictionary, which was hailed as 'the year s most important contribution to British art history when first published in 1998. As well as extensive updates, there are around 4,000 entirely new bi

Artists in Britain since 1945

Buckman, David

History & Criticism

<p>Drawing on the West Cornwall Art Archive and many other sources, this profusely illustrated book is the most comprehensive survey ever compiled of painters, draughtsmen and women, sculptors and craftspeople working in Newlyn.</p>

Artists in Newlyn 1880-1940: A Dictionary and Source Book

Hardie, Melissa

New edition of the standard work on the artists of Northumberland, Durham, Cleveland & Tyne & Wear.Contains profiles of well over 1000 artists, included are ones born between 1990-1950 for the first time.

Artists of Northumbria

HALL, Marshall

This book bears witness to the staying power of Pre-Raphaelitism & illuminates the ambivalent, relatively uncritical response in England to the modern movement.

Poet & Painter: Letters between Gordon Bottomley & Paul Nash 1910-

Causley, Andrew

Explores the rich and varied work of Liverpool's post-war painters & sculptors.

Liverpool Seen: Post-War Artists on Merseyside

Davies,Peter

Roger Cole presents the unvarnished facts about the brilliant young sculptor killed in the first world war and his friendships.

Gaudier-Brzeska: Artist & Myth

Cole, Roger

Details the life & works of a very important artist figure.

The Affectionate Eye: The Life of Claude Rogers

Percy, Jenny

This book draws on many hundreds of personal letters, as well as recollections of friends & family to paint a remarkable picture of life in the Lamorna colony in Cornwall.

A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch & his Circle

Wormleighton, Austin

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Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art

Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art

Artists in Britain since 1945

Artists in Newlyn 1880-1940: A Dictionary and Source Book

Artists of Northumbria

Poet & Painter: Letters between Gordon Bottomley & Paul Nash 1910-

Liverpool Seen: Post-War Artists on Merseyside

Gaudier-Brzeska: Artist & Myth

The Affectionate Eye: The Life of Claude Rogers

A Painter Laureate: Lamorna Birch & his Circle