Westview Press, Date: 2002-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Westview Press [Published date: 2002]. Hard cover, 746 pp. First printing of Revised Edition, with full number line. In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers and Light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [from Foreword]This book owes its existence to a teaching problem which I encountered in attempting to introduce students to European art of the early and mid-nineteenth century:the lack of a general text covering that period. The broad surveys were insufficiently detailed for my purpose; the essential monographic literature, on the other hand, went far beyond what my students could manage in the time given them. To bridge this gap, I began to prepare syllabi that amounted to miniature monographs and thatpresented what I considered the essential information concisely, but in considerably greater depth than the available surveys, including Walter Friedlaender's excellentDavid to Delacroix, my initial model. My book does not pretend to be a comprehensive history of the art of the period. It is, as I well know, limited by certain conventions of coverage and emphasis to which my teaching, in its time and place, was subject. It also reflects the attitudes, and perhaps prejudices, of its author. Its locus is on the individual artist, as the embodiment of the ideas and ...

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Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, Date: 2002. Comprehensive revised and expanded text presents an outline of the embodiment of ideas and artistic movements that prevailed during the period of the 18th century in Europe. Includes detailed topics covering the classical revival; the Enlightenment and the arts; David and his school; Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, 1726-1828; British neoclassicism and William Blake; neoclassicism and the emergence of women artists; German romantics; English landscape; French romantics; French landscape; realism; academic and salon painters; Edgar Degas; impressionism; Paul Cezanne; etc. 746 pgs. 432 Illustrations. Gilt spine and front cover. Tiny bump to lower spine edge. . Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2002. Westview Press ISBN 0813339626 9780813339627 [US]