From the Classicists to the Impressionists: Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century (A Documentary History of Art, Vol. 3) - Softcover

Elizabeth Gilmore Holt

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Synopsis

During the nineteenth century institutions and attitudes gave way to new forms and relationships. Traditions in governmental and social institutions, traditions in social behavior and processes of production, traditions in methods and materials of construction in architecture and in modes of of representation in the visual arts were discarded. The nineteenth-century artist were therefore called upon to devise forms that would be expressive of European life which was transforming itself into the industrial and technological age of the twentieth century......

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