However, Ernst van Alphen argues that it is the violence done to the viewer that needs to be addressed if we are to understand how these works function.

A scholarly and entertaining survey of painting during the Victorian era.

Focusing on national identity in the Netherlands, France, and Britian, The Nation Made Real offers an original interpretation of the role of visual art in the making of nations in Western Europe.

"With its unprecedented focus on the history of Orientalism in British art, this fascinating book examines the work of British artists who engaged with Middle Eastern themes over three centuries, from the 1620s to the eclipse of the Ottoman ...

British Impressionism (1880-1910) was a direct and spontaneous period of British art, when artists were concerned with painting the effects of light.

His output was astonishingly varied. Focusing on 125 paintings and drawings from the Tate, which owns the world's largest collection of his work, this illustrated book aims to provide a fresh and lively survey.