The Description for this book, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, will be forthcoming.

Product Description: When this book and its companion volume, Image of the People, appeared in 1973, they were taken as a challenge to the way art was usually written about. "This book," said the Times, "is a product of that school of art history whose history is as well read as its art, and whilst it covers only a small area of time and place, Clark's approach and style are such that it throws up enough ideas and pleasures to illuminate far beyond its rather special circumstances...read more

The paintings of Manet, Degas, Seurat, and others are reproduced and examined as representations of the political, social, and physical changes characteristic of Paris, and France, in the mid-nineteenth century (view table of contents)

Discusses the basic techniques of watercolor painting and provides tips on light, shadow, color, and subjects

Traces the development of modernism and its decline

Product Description: In 85 striking color photographs, Misrach captured the opening between bay and ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from his front porch in the Berkeley hills, in every light and weather condition, and at various times of day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An ambitious exploration of the self-portrait from its inception in the late fifteenth century to the end of the twentieth, this book moves beyond the constraints of art history. With, 140 images from collections all over the world, this book includes pioneering essays on self-portraiture by leading art historians as well as informative analyses.

Product Description: Malcolm Bull offers a detailed analysis of nihilism in Nietzsche's works. Along with accompanying commentaries by Cascardi and Clark, he explores the significance of Nietzscheís views given the fact that a wide range of readers have come to embrace his ideas as new orthodoxy...read more

Documents the efforts of Northern businessmen, employing freed slaves and assesses the new planters' impact on the Southern postwar economy

Product Description: Much-loved British painter L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) made the industrial city the focus of his career. This book, published to accompany a retrospective at Tate Britain, shows how Lowry depicted the public rituals of working-class urban life: football matches and protest marches; evictions and fistfights; workers going to and from the mill...read more