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. Key pedagogical features include: Data boxes provide
statistics, timelines, charts, and historical information about the
period to further situate artworks. Text boxes highlight extracts
from original sources, citing the ideas of artists and their
contemporaries, including historians, philosophers, critics, and
theorists, to place artists and works in the broader context of
aesthetic, cultural, intellectual, social, and political conditions
in which artists were working. Beautifully illustrated with over
250 color images. Margin notes and glossary definitions. Online
resources at www.routledge.com/textbooks/facos with access to a
wealth of information, including original documents pertaining to
artworks discussed in the textbook, contemporary criticism,
timelines and maps to enrich your understanding of the period and
allow for further comparison and exploration. Chapters take a
thematic approach combined within an overarching chronology and
more detailed discussions of individual works are always put in the
context of the broader social picture, thus providing students with
a sense of art history as a controversial and alive arena of study.
Michelle Facos teaches art history at Indiana University,
Bloomington. Her research explores the changing relationship
between artists and society since the Enlightenment and issues of
identity. Prior publications include Nationalism and the Nordic
Imagination: Swedish Painting of the 1890s (1998), Art, Culture and
National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, co-edited with Sharon
Hirsh (2003), and Symbolist Art in Context (2009).
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