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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An original exploration of the influence of Aboriginality on Australian art and identity.

Egyptian Sketches.

The striking artistic life of Vincent Van Gogh resulted in some of the best known and best loved paintings and drawings ever made. This book offers a visual chronology of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh.

Offers a comprehensive overview of the painting and the music of three centuries. This book presents and comments on the most important paintings of the respective century in chronological order. It also provides explanations of the specific connections between the history of music and painting.

Sir Edwin Landseer RA was the foremost animal painter of his day and Queen Victoria's favourite, who became well-known to the public for the portrait of a majestic stag, The Monarch of the Glen, and the bronze lions at the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. But another more private side to Landseer's creative genius which deserves greater recognition is revealed in his 'off-duty' ...

Contains 22 prints, by Manuel Manilla and J G Posada for the Mexican Day of the Dead, that show skeletons in everyday acts such as drinking, dancing, fighting, flirting and riding bicycles; and display an incomparable mixture of vitality and morbidity.