Keywords of Nineteenth-century Art
- ISBN-10
- 0953260917
- ISBN-13
- 9780953260911
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Art Dictionaries
- Author
- Christine Lindey
Description
In Keywords of Nineteenth-Century Art, Christine Lindey offers a fresh approach to the study of the theory and practice of the century's fine art. Fifty key art terms provide a context for copious contemporary quotations from those with direct experience of the creative process: artists, critics, writers and thinkers. The book thus avoids the hackneyed definition of major movements and artists' groups, and instead discusses these through a rich diversity of attitudes to each keyword; those, for example, of the Romantic, Barbizon and Symbolist artists and their publics to issues such as art institutions, exhibitions, landscape, drawing and the pervasive influence of the antique. The quotations are drawn from a wide range of sources. Chosen to exemplify particular historical, geographical, socio-political and aesthetic tendencies, these provide familiar pivotal figures to help guide the reader through a highly populated and fast-changing art world.
