Product Description: With styles ranging from traditional to abstract, the works in this volume span late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art and include examples from both Europe and Latin America. The common thread is excellence. Many of the paintings play on the boundaries between reality and fantasy, contain elements of humor or satire, or are rendered in a highly colorful, expressive style which does not directly imitate the natural world...read more

Product Description: Through the use of paintings and objects from Australian and British collections, the story is told of hardships in 19th century England, Scotland and Ireland and the factors that encouraged or forced people to emigrate to Australia, an unknown and strange land, reached after a perilous voyage...read more

Product Description: Paperback with worn cover. Old bookstore label on back.

Product Description: Book by Casteras, Susan P., Gordon, Susan Phelps, Gully, Anthony Lacy

Product Description: The pre-Raphaelite artists, especially John Everett Millais, Holman Hunt, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are presented from the perspective of the popular and critical response of American audiences to their work. Complemented by more than one hundred photographs, the study also delineates the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites on American artists...read more

Discusses the portrayal of the Queen, girls, courtship, marrigae, women workers, widows, fallen women, and ladies of leisure in nineteenth century British painting

Product Description: Book by Casteras, Susan P.