Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900: Sources and Documents

Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. *** "Through a broad selection of familiar central documents and less well-known ones, the author has focused upon the problems faced by innovators in all realms of thought and action in the middle of the 19th century. This book brings a fresh approach to the struggle, in both art and politics, between the established order and the forces of change." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: 1. TRADITIONAL ART: ITS SUPPORTERS AND ITS CRITICS: Achille Fould: 1800-1867; Address to the prize winners of the 1857 salon; Thomas Couture: 1815-1879; Conversation on art methods; William-Adolphe Bouguereau: 1825-1905; Address to the Institute de France; Theophile Thore [W. Burger, pseudonym]: 1807-1869; The decadence of classical painting; [Jules Antoine] Castagnary: 1830-1888; A critique of three Venuses; Edmond and Jules de Concourt: 1822-1896, 1830-1870; The death of art in the 19th century; Gavarni expresses his opinion on art and life; Eugene Fromentin: 1820-1876; A critic's program; A letter to a young artist; Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: 1827-1875; The evolution of "The dance"; Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: 1824-1898; An allegory of letters, science, and the arts. 2. REALISM AND NATURALISM IN FRANCE: Gustave Courbet: 1819-1877; The realist manifesto; Art cannot be taught; Champfleury [Jules Francoise Felix Husson]: 1821-1889; A letter to Madame Sand about M. Courbet; Max Buchon: 1818-1869; "As an apple-tree produces apples"; [Jules Antoine] Castagnary: 1830-1888; The importance of Courbet Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: 1809-1865; Concerning the principles of art and its social destiny; Theophile Thore: 1807-1869; Courbet and Millet; Jean-Francoise Millet: 1814-1869; A letter to Thore; First thoughts for the Letter to Thore ; The "Man with the hoe"; Theocritus and Burns; Theophile Thore; On the "Salon des refuses"; [Jules Antoine] Castagnary; 1863: The triumph of naturalism; Edouard Manet: 1832-1883; Theophile Thore: an appreciation of Manet in the 1868 salon; Emile Zola: A new style in painting; Manet's statements about art; A letter about Velasquez and Goya from Manet to Fantin-Latour from Madrid in 1865; Reasons for a private exhibition; Adverse criticism of Manet; Eugene Boudin: 1824-1870; One must paint the subjects of one's time; Excerpts from Boudin's notebooks; Frede ric Bazille: 1841-1870; Letters to his parents. 3. ENGLAND: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND THEIR FRIENDS: Ford Madox Brown: 1821-1893; "The pretty baa-lambs" ("Summer heat"); The "Last of England"; A description of "Work"; Description of a landscape; William Holman Hunt: 1827-1910; Raphael and Pre-Raphaelitism; A trip to Paris and Belgium; A harsh review of the Pre-Raphaelites in The times; A consideration of technical procedures; "The light of the world "; "The awakening conscience"; Dante Gabriel Rossetti: 1828-1882; The Pre-Raphaelite immortals; Van Eyck and Memling; "Ecce ancilla Domini" (The Annunciation"); Two poems; John Everett Millais: 1829-1896; Letter about "Before the Flood"; John Ruskin: 1819-1900; A defense of the Pre-Raphaelites; A second letter to The times about the Pre-Raphaelites; Holman Hunt's "Light of the world"; Holman Hunt's "Awakening conscience"; Advice to Rossetti; William Morris: 1834-1896; The aims of art. 4. ITALY AND GERMANY: Giovanni Fattori: 1825-1908; Letter to a group of pupils; Recollections of youth; Adriano Cecioni: 1836-1866; The style of the "Macchiaioli"; Cecioni's sculpture and painting; Anselm Feuerbach: 1829-1880; Letters to his mother; Arnold Bo chlin: 1827-1901; Letter to Colonel Merian-Iselin; Wilhelm Leibl: 1844-1900; Letter to Baurat U. Wingen; Letters to his parents; Letters to his mother about:three peasant women in a village church"; Hans Thoma: 1839-1924; A letter to Emil Lugo; Max Liebermann: 1847-1935; A confession of artistic faith; Conrad Fiedler: 1841-1895; On judging works of art; Adolf von Hildebrand: 1847-1921; The problem of form in painting and sculpture; Ferdinand Hodler: 1853-1.…