From the Book - Fifth edition.
Introduction. Critical art and history
Classicism and Romanticism. Patriotism and virtue : David to the young Ingres ; Classicism in crisis : Gros to Delacroix / Thomas Crow
Tensions of enlightenment : Goya
Visionary history painting : Blake and his contemporaries ; Nature and history in English romantic landscape painting ; Landscape art and romantic nationalism in Germany and America ; Architecture unshackled, 1790-1851 / Brian Lukacher
New World Frontiers. Old world, new world : the encounter of cultures on the American frontier ; Black and white in America / Francis K. Pohl
Realism and Naturalism. The generation of 1830 and the crisis in the public sphere
The rhetoric of realism : Courbet and the origins of the avant-garde
Photography, modernity, and art / David Llewellyn
The decline of history painting : Germany, Italy, and France
Modern art and life. Architecture and design in the age of industry
Manet and the Impressionists
Issues of gender in Cassatt and Eakins / Linda Nochlin
Mass culture and Utopia : Seurat and Neoimpressionism
The appeal of modern art : Toulouse-Lautrec
Abstraction and populism : Van Gogh
Symbolism and the dialectics of retreat
The failure and success of Cézanne.
