An overview of the nude figure and its role in the development of Victorian art considers its depiction in painting, sculpture, drawing, and other media, in a study that considers the works of such masters as Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Whistler, and Sargent.

Product Description: Arriving at their mature styles independently of one another, the renowned American expatriate painters James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent and the British artist Philip Wilson Steer are often credited with bringing modern art to London near the end of the 19th century...read more

The tie-in to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this richly illustrated study incorporates more than two hundred prints, paintings, drawings, and illuminated books by poet, artist, and mystic William Blake, accompanied by introductory essays on Blake the man, his role in the political and social upheavals of his era, his innovative printing techniques, and his visionary art. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut in 1952, to Palestinian parents, and settled in London in 1975. She first became known for a series of performance and video pieces which focused with great intensity on the body. Since the beginning of the 1990s her work has shifted towards installation and sculpture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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