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Excavating
Greece: Classicism between Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century
Europeby Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer This essay considers the uses and transformation of the classical aesthetic in the context of competing imperialist cultural strategies in the Mediterranean deployed by Europe's most powerful nations, France, Germany and England. Concentrating on the surge of foreign archaeological activity in liberated Greece, it traces the symbolic meaning of classicism and its opposite, ethnographic naturalism, in the construction of diverse national identities. |
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by Greg M. Thomas
In 1860, French and British forces looted the enormous imperial palace of Yuanming Yuan outside Beijing, a process that revealed a range of attitudes and value systems among both the looters and the cultural agents receiving the stolen art objects in Europe. The author explores Empress Eugénie’s display of looted works at the palace of Fontainebleau, arguing that the display nostalgically echoed eighteenth-century politics and taste.
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| Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914,
June Hargrove and Neil McWilliam, eds. Reviewed by Rachel Esner |
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| Victor Regnault
and the Advance of Photography: The Art of Avoiding Errors, by
Laurie Dahlberg Reviewed
by Joel Hollander |
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| Current Issues
in 19th-Century Art: Van Gogh Studies 1 Reviewed by Michael Marlais |
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| Gustave Courbet Reviewed
by Mary Morton |
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| Barcelona 1900 Reviewed by Gabriel P. Weisberg |
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| Ottocento:
da Canova al Quarto Stato Reviewed
by Adrian R. Duran |
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| Goya Graveur Reviewed by Sabina Fogle, with Gabriel P. Weisberg
and Janet Whitmore |
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| Vanishing Frontier: Rookwood,
Farny, and the American Indian Reviewed
by Theresa Leininger-Miller |
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| La matière
de l’étrange, Jean Carriès (1855-1894) Reviewed by Caterina Y. Pierre |
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| El
siglo XIX en el Prado Reviewed by Isabel Valverde |
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| Daumier :
L’écriture du lithographe Reviewed
by Sabina Fogle, with Gabriel P. Weisberg and Janet Whitmore |
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Fleshing Out the Museum: Fernand
Cormon’s Painting Cycle
for the New Galleries of Comparative Anatomy, Paleontology, and
Anthropology |
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Baby-in-a-Half-Shell: A Case Study in Child Memorial Art of the
Late Nineteenth Centuryby Annette Stott Using a case study approach, this article examines nineteenth-century baby-in-a-half-shell grave markers from multiple points of view. The author argues that the image appealed to a diverse audience by combining popular culture from the Victorian American cult of the child with an artistic pedigree tracing back to ancient Rome. |
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Invisible “Sculpteuse”: Sculptures by Women in the
Nineteenth-Century Urban Public Space—London, Paris, Brusselsby Marjan Sterckx Though nineteenth-century public sculpture is typically thought of as a male domain, women have made sculptures for public urban spaces from the eighteenth century on. The author explores the presence of public and semi-public sculpture by women in Paris, London, and Brussels over the course of the long nineteenth century. |
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 Unpublished Drawings by Thomas Hope and Henry Moses in the Gennadius Library, Athens by Frances Van Keuren |