Embraces many aspects of the nineteenth century art history attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spectatorship, racism and Eurocentrism, popular and elite culture while recovering the remarkable vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era's best art. This title includes a chapter on Photography, Modernity and Art.

Introduction: Critical Art and History Classicism and Romanticism 1 Thomas Crow Patriotism and Virtue: David to the Young Ingres 2 Thomas Crow Classicism in Crisis: Gros to Delacroix 3 The Tensions of Enlightenment: Goya 4 Brian Lukacher Visionary History Painting: Blake and his Contemporaries 5 Brian Lukacher Nature and History in English Romantic Landscape Painting 6 Brian Lukacher Landscape Art and Romantic Nationalism in Germany and America 7 Brian Lukacher Architecture Unshackled 1790 - 1851 New World Frontiers 8 Frances K. Pohl Old World, New World: The Encounter of Cultures on the American Frontier 9 Frances K. Pohl Black and White in America Realism and Naturalism 10 The generation of 1830 and the Crisis in the Public Sphere 11 The Rhetoric of Realism: Courbet and the Origins of the Avant-Garde 12 David Llewellyn Phillips Photography, Modernity and Art 13 The Decline of History Painting: Germany, Italy, France and Russia Modern Art and Life 14 Architecture and Design in the Age of Industry 15 Manet and the Impressionists 16 Linda Nochlin Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins 17 Mass Culture and Utopia: Seurat and Neoimprerssionism 18 The Appeal of Modern Art: Toulouse-Lautrec 19 Abstraction and Populism: Van Gogh 20 Symbolism and the Dialectics of Retreat 21 The Failure and Success of Cezanne Chronology * Select Bibliography * List of Illustrations * Index