Continental Crosscurrents: British Criticism and European Art 1810-1910
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. x; 297 pp. 45 BW illustrations. VG-. Ex-library with usual marks. Clean and tight otherwise. Item #168884
ISBN: 9780198186915
Contents include the English romantics and early Italian art; the Romanesque revival in Britain, 1800-1840 (parts 1 and 2); Robert Browning's 'Pictor Ignotus,' and continentl 'Christian' art; whoring after colour: Venetian painting in England; Ruskin's Venice and Victor Hugo's Paris; Alfred Waterhouse's German Romanesque 'Temple of Nature': the Natural History Museum; the last degradation of art: Gauguin, the British, and French Polynesia; Byzantinism and British modernism; and D.H. Lawrence, German sculpture, and Women in Love.
OCLC: 60418021
Price: $29.97