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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