Written by the former art critic for The New York Times, this is a complete study of the painting and sculpture of the 19th century covering its major movements and incorporating its 18th-century precedents and early 20th-century developments.
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Written by the former art critic for The New York Times, this is a complete study of the painting and sculpture of the 19th century covering its major movements and incorporating its 18th-century precedents and early 20th-century developments.
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Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. considerable wear to cover at corners, edges and spine, corners bumped, page blocks smudged, endpapers faded, black marker stripe through owner's name on flyleaf, some underlinings in text in pencil; text... xxiv, 576 p. 700 illus., 15 col. plates. 26 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Plates.
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This item is fairly worn, but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn corners, bends, tears, small stains, and partial water damage. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing, if applicable. Pages may include excessive notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
This was the first book on art I ever read - when I was 16 and still at school. It opened my eyes to art of all periods: "modern" in the title means from the Eighteenth Century onwards! Canaday - whose own sympathies were very much with more tradional kinds of art - deals fairly with art of all the various schools of his chosen period, neo-classsicism, romanticism, impressionism and so forth. His only real blind spot is Victorian acadedmic art; but the rehabilitation of nineteenth-century art had not started when Canaday was writing this. Advances in printing technology mean that the book has a rather old-fashioned appearance, with most of the illustrations in black and white. But the text is as good as it was when Canaday wrote it in 1959. Cheap reading copies are easily available from alibris, and are worth their weight in gold. A brilliant introduction to the visual arts.