An account of the unnecessary death of five-year-old Lisa Sheridan describes how, when little Lisa was stricken with pneumonia, Dorothy Sheridan, a Christian Scientist, denied her daughter medical treatment. Reprint. LJ. PW.

Product Description: One of the earliest German expressionists and a member of the prolific yet short-lived secessionist movement Die Brücke, Emil Nolde produced many colorful paintings across his career, including portraits, religious tableaus, and landscapes depicting seasides and bustling Berlin street scenes...read more

Product Description: A corresponding member of the Vienna Secession, French sculptor Auguste Rodin submitted works for its exhibitions beginning in 1898. The ninth Secession exhibition marked the high point of his involvement, with many of his major works prominently displayed, including Eve, The Age of Iron, The Burghers of Calais, and Rodin’s monument to the great French writer Honoré de Balzac—now considered among his greatest works though met at the time with considerable disapproval...read more

Product Description: This beautiful catalogue gathers a magnificent selection of the finest landscape works by Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Max Slevogt--Germany’s three greatest Impressionist painters. Impressionism, considered a French style of painting, was greeted with hostility in Germany, where traditionalists opposed all foreign influence in the art of their nation state...read more

Product Description: Anton Romako’s painting of “Admiral Tegetthoff in the Naval Battle of Lissa” is now celebrated as a visionary work, and is part of the canon of European art of the 19th century. This richly illustrated book traces the history of the picture and places it in the historical, military, and artistic context of its age...read more

Provides an introduction to the Austrian artist's work, presenting examples of his paintings with a discussion of their historical background and critical interpretation.

Product Description: This visually stunning collection of all Klimt's landscape paintings and drawings brings to light a little-known aspect of the Viennese painter's oeuvre, proving that his mastery extends beyond portraiture, and revealing themes that appeared throughout his life's work...read more

Product Description: Nearly eighty masterpieces of Finnish painting, offer an opportunity to explore the range of the country's art at the dawn of the twentieth century. Finnish art holds an important place in the development of Modernism. At the turn of the century, the country blossomed-its native culture, breathtaking landscapes, and vitality helped fuel a movement that celebrated youth, energy, colour, and non-traditional representation...read more

Product Description: This volume is one of a series of seven that together cover the history of the art of the entire world. The underlying principle of the series is to present the art of all cultural regions on an equal footing. From the cave paintings of Chauvet (approximately 25,000 years old) through the marble idols of Tell Asmar in Iraq (approximately 2600 BCE) and the Nok terracottas of Nigeria (6th century BCE) to Rodin's "Gates of Hell" (1880 - 1917), the series covers virtually the entire history of mankind...read more

Product Description: This is a survey of American art spannning a whole century, from the close of the 18th century until World War I. Classified by genre, these works demonstrate both the continuity and the breaks in the development of 19th-century American art and question the established art-historical narrative of American painting...read more

A chronological presentation of Monet's life and art