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First published in New York in 1994 by Thames & Hudson.

"College edition"--Cover.

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.