Nineteenth Century Art

Emphasizing the vitality of nineteenth-century art, the authors demonstrate how paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings by David, Gericault, Turner, Homer, Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh, and many others remain relevant today. Using evocative and lucid prose, the authors reveal how concerns about class and gender, race and ethnicity, modernity and tradition, and popular and elite culture -- ideas that arose in the course of the nineteenth century -- motivated artists and propelled the movements under review. --from the publisher.