Presenting a survey of European art and visual culture in the nineteenth-century, this book shows the connections between visual cultural production and the political, social, and economic order of the time. It is suitable for one-semester courses in 19th-Century Art, and two-semester courses that cover the periods of 1760-1830 and 1830-1900.

This book begins by introducing the historical events and cultural and artistic trends from about 1760 and discusses the advent of Modernism and its many interpretations. Chu considers the changing relationship between artist and audience, evolving attitudes toward the depiction of nature and the confrontation of European artists with non-Western art due to expanding trade and travel

Preface
Introduction
1. Rococo, Enlightenment, and the Call for a New Art in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
2. The Classical Paradigm
3. British Art during the Late Georgian Period
4. Art and Revolutionary Propaganda in France
5. The Arts under Napoleon
6. Francisco Goya and Spanish Art at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
7. The Beginnings of Romanticism in the German-Speaking World
8. The Importance of Landscape British Painting in the Early-Nineteenth Century
9. The Restoration Period and the Rejection of Classicism in France
10. The Popularization of Art and Visual Culture in France during the July Monarchy (1830 - 1848)
11. The Revolution of 1848 and the Emergence of Realism in France
12. Progress, Modernity, and
Modernism French Visual Culture during the Second Empire, 1852 - 1870
13. Art in the German-Speaking World from the Congress of Vienna to the German Empire, 1815 - 1871
14. Art in Victorian Britain, 1837 - 1901
15. National Pride and International Rivalry the Great International Expositions
16. French Art after the Commune Conservative and Modernist Trends
17. French Avant-Garde Art in the 1880s
18. When the Eiffel Tower Was New
19. France during La Belle Epoque
20. International Trends c. 1920
Timeline
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index