Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects - these are among the Victorian experiments in photo collage seen. This book examines comprehensively the little-known phenomenon of Victorian photocollage.

Neoclassicism, which arose during the 18th Century's Age of Enlightenment, was inspired by the rationality, simplicity and grandeur of ancient Greece and Rome. This book focuses on the influential Neoclassic and Romantic art movements. It illuminates the ideas and events that shaped this era of artistic ferment.

A work on the influential from the Realist to Art Nouveau art movements. It lets you trace the roots of modern art, beginning with Realist paintings such as Courbet's The Stonebreakers and Millet's The Gleaners - works that shocked mid - 19th-century Paris with their unblinking depiction of the lives of the poor.

Brings together the two encyclopedic collections of ornament from the 19th century chromo-lithographic tradition: Auguste Racinet's L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II (1875/1888) and M Dupont-Auberville's L'Ornement des tissus (1877). This book is suitable for artists, historians, art lovers, interior designers and patternmakers.

From October to December 1888 a pair of artists lived under one roof in the French provincial town of Arles. Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh ate, drank, talked, argued, slept and painted in one of the most intense and astonishing creative outpourings in history.

Turner's lifetime was also the classic age of English watercolour, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. This volume examines the unique body of watercolours Turner produced throughout his lifetime. It also provides a context to the watercolours.

J M W Turner is regarded as the greatest painter Britain has ever produced. This book explores the fascinating aspect of his career, revealing detail on the debts and rivalries that shaped his work in often unexpected ways. It accompanies a major touring exhibition that brings together works by Turner with masterpieces by Claude and Canaletto.

Shows some of the best of Victoriana, scrap booking, 19th-century photography and collage.This book is suitable for those interested in Victoriana, scrap booking, 19th-century photography and collage.

Vincent van Gogh's letters have long been prized as some of the most valuable documents in the world of art. Not only do they throw light on Van Gogh's own complex and intriguing character, they enlighten the whole creative process as seen through his eyes. This book presents biographical and art-historical information.

Presents an encounter between one of the 20th century's greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern art. This title explores Manet's importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. It takes the form of a commentary on thirteen of Manet's paintings.

Nature and the American Vision. Including many never-before-published images from the Hudson River School of painters.

The period from the early works of Hogarth (about 1730) to the death of Turner (1851) was the golden age of British painting. William Vaughan discusses the key personalities and analyzes the class structure, political background, and economic factors that governed the art market.

Gaston La Touche (1854-1913) was a leading colourist of the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries, who associated with all the important artists of the period. This book features many of his paintings from private collections.

Features full-colour illustrations and albumen and salt prints that augment the detailed study of a location and nineteenth-century timeframe that was instrumental in the way painting and other art forms were produced.

Details the development of the Tonalist landscape: the early works of John La Farge at Newport in the 1860s; the influence of Whistler and Inness in the 1880s; the American expatriate art colonies in Europe; and, the development of Tonalism after 1900, which lay the groundwork for modernism in the Stieglitz Circle and subsequently Milton Avery.

Focuses on the art of watchmaking. This work offers advice to both students and watch repairers. It describes the making of the precision timekeeper step by step, which is illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. It also describes the development of the escapement - an aspect of watchmaking - in detail.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), scion of an ancient aristocratic family, was a crippled dwarf. In Paris he was drawn to the world of the red-light district around Montmartre. Lautrec recorded what he saw, and transferred his observations to paper and canvas. This monograph examines the close relations between Lautrec's work and life.

In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that Cezanne made of his wife, Hortense Fiquet Cezanne, over an extended twenty-year period. This title focuses on these paintings as a group and looks at the differences that render many of them unrecognizable as the same person.