The indispensable one-volume reference work on 19th-century art in Europe and America has been substantially updated and enlarged. This third edition includes new chapters on architecture and design and a new essay on the Vienna Secession, as well as a fully updated bibliography and new illustration[...]

"Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History", hailed as one of the most engrossing and stimulating art history texts to come along for years by "The Times Higher Education Supplement", embraces many aspects of the so-called new art history attention to issues of class and gender, reception and spect[...]

The line between punishment and torture can be thin, but the entire world agreed it was crossed at Abu Ghraib. Or did it? George W. Bush emerged from the scandal relatively unscathed, winning a second term months later, only a few low-ranking soldiers involved in the crimes were prosecuted, and the [...]

This is a concise and engaging, yet detailed and informative monograph that explores Gauguin's most Important works. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most important artists of the late 19th century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the 20th cent[...]