In the late nineteenth century, art critics regarded seventeenth-century Dutch paintings as direct reflections of reality. The paintings were discussed as an index of the democracy of a society that…
In the late nineteenth century, art critics regarded seventeenth-century Dutch paintings as direct reflections of reality. The paintings were discussed as an index of the democracy of a society that chose to represent its class, action, and occupations exactly as they were, wide-ranging realism wa...
The rise of a competitive market for advanced art in the late nineteenth century freed artists from the constraint of having to satisfy powerful patrons, and gave them unprecedented freedom to innovate. As the rewards for radical and conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond ...
EIn the nineteenth century, the railroads captured the imagination of artists, and the steam engine in the distance of a landscape became as much a part of it as the herd of cows in the foreground. The Impressionist Claude Monet painted man-made structures like railway stations and cathedrals ...
With the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, artists had a new tool at their disposal for representing the natural world. While often thought of as nature's mirror, even photography is shaped by the hand and eye of the artist. The photographer chooses where to stand, the angl...
A somewhat controversial figure in his own day, Henry David Thoreau rose to his greatest prominence posthumously, in the late nineteenth century, with the publication of his expansive journals. In our day, he remains ranked among the nation’s most interesting and idiosyncratic writers. This list...
Yet we must remain vigilant. Even in the twenty-first century we find art historians who, though they may acknowledge the growing recognition of contemporary women artists, continue to underestimate the importance of women artists during the second half of the nineteenth century, and ignore the ide...
and Self in Nineteenth Century Painting Christopher Green, Art in France 1900–1940 Matthew Baigell, Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America; Jonath... R Zorach,C Clunas,R Brettell,... - 《Art Bulletin》 被引量: 0发表: 2002年 ...
When the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced the reform and opening up policy in December 1978, the long-term strategy was to introduce more free market measures that would spur China to grow more prosperous while marching in step with industrial development and modernization. Cartoons Commen...
to reassemble a feminist genealogy of the posthuman in the arts, this article will specifically focus on the visual works conceived by female artists after the rise of what has been retrospectively defined as first-wave Feminism, which took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century...