An Outline Of 19th Century European Painting: From David Through Cezanne - Softcover

Eitner, Lorenz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064302237 ISBN 13: 9780064302234

Publisher: Westview Press, 1992

Synopsis

This new, one-volume edition contains both text and plates and includes corrections in the text and bibliography made since the books publication in 1987. There are concise monographic chapters on the important artists and movements of the period, with material on each artist's life and work, characteristics of style, and the relationship of the artistic movements to historical and intellectual currents of the time.The author covers a wide range of material and his presentation is lucid and perceptive. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academics and Salon Painters, and Impressionism are covered, and the following artists are included: David, Gros, Girodet, Gérard, Guérin, Prud'hon, Goya, Fuseli, Blake, Runge, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Igres, Géricault, Delacroix, Corot, Rousseau, Daumier, Millet, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, and Cézanne.

About this title

About the Author:

Lorenz Eitner is Osgood hooker Professor of Fine Art emeritus at Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0064302237
• ISBN 13: 9780064302234
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 720