- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press; First Edition edition (10 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192842463
- ISBN-13: 978-0192842466
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 17.5 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,441,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Thoughtful and persuasive. I like the thematic organization."--Richard Wrigley, Brookes University
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Hogarth's pugnaciously xenophobic "Gates of Calais", Giambattista Tiepolo's grandiose murals at Wurzburg, Goya's satirical engravings, Los Caprichos, and Canova's chastely classical sculptures could hardly be more different but all are aspects of the same period. In an era of unprecedented change - rapid urbanization, economic growth, political revolution - artists were in the business of finding new ways of making art, new ways of selling art, and new ways of talking about art. Matthew Craske creates a vivid picture of 18th- and early 19th-century art in Europe, taking a critical view of such conventional categorizations as the "Rococo", the "Neo-Classical", and the "Romantic". He engages with crucial thematic issues such as changes in "taste" and "manners" and the impact of enlightenment notions of progress, and at the same time goes beyond the usual geographical limits of surveys to take in St Petersburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Madrid. The result is a holistic survey which sets the art of the period firmly in its social history.
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Those late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art commentators who penned their earnest complaints concerning the debasement of art at the hands of 'the public' assumed that the issues they addressed were of great public concern. Read the first page
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
An excellent art history book
20 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
I bought this for an art history course in college. The book has many high quality illustrations and half of them are in color. The book also features many details of the works presented in it. There are also comments about what was happening in the artists' lives when they were painting the works shown. The book also includes the political events that occured during the 18th and early 19th centuries. There is even a timeline in the back which shows what was happening in the art world and in the political world at the same time. The book focuses on the Rococo, Neo-Classical, and Romantic movements in painting and sculpture. There is no mention of architecture. This is a great book to have if you like art history.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good Historical Overview
25 Jan 2003
Format:Paperback
A good addition to your Art Book Library. Good analysis of art in the 18th and early 19th centuries, in conjunction with world events.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Academic indulgence
17 Jun 2009
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Somehow Craske has managed to find the most bland and lifeless art from this period in art history. He does love his caricatures and monkey paintings. Had I no experience of the subject other than this book I probably would not dig any deeper; thankfully that is not the case.
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