Product Description: Book by Flint, Lucy, Childs, Elizabeth C.

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dozens of reproductions highlight the work of Parisian avant-garde artists of the late 1880s and early 1890s, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard, and Georges Seurat, providing a fresh look at this influential generation of artists and the impact of their work on the development of modern art. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Best known as a satirist of Parisian politics and daily life, Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was a prolific caricaturist. This book is the first to examine the role of exoticism in his art, and to offer a detailed history of the journal Le Charivari in which the lithographs appeared...read more

Product Description: In 1890, John La Farge (1835–1910) and his close friend, historian Henry Adams, embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific, where the artist experienced a period of great creative output. This book showcases many of the most important oils, watercolors, and sketches to come out of La Farge’s two-year voyage to the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and is the first to place the artist’s South Seas work in the broader context of exotic travel by artists and writers of the 19th century...read more

Explores censorship of the visual arts over the centuries, examining the range of political, social, and artistic circumstances in which censorship has occurred in environments such as 16th-century Germany and Italy, 19th-century France, and 20th-century Germany, China, and America. Themes include censorship of contemporary artists in China, the rejection of modernism in Nazi Germany and in McCarthy-era Texas, and recent debates over government sponsorship of the arts, using the work of Wojnarowicz and Mapplethorpe as examples. Includes b&w photos and illustrations. For general readers and scholars. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.