Civilisation and Nineteenth-Century Art: A European concept in global context
This volume explores the ways in which artists and art historians envisioned civilisation over the course of the long nineteenth century. More specifically, it examines how Europeans and Americans represented themselves and others through the lens of civilisation, how understandings of historical and artistic development were reshaped by the idea, and how the idea changed and was put to new uses as the century progressed.Coined in mid-eighteenth-century Europe, civilisation was initially thought of as a single process that all societies underwent, some faster than others. In the nineteenth century, civilisation became the primary way of under…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78499-268-2
- EAN: 9781784992682
- Produktnummer: 22692101
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B17.3 cm x D2.0 cm 771 g
- Gewicht: 771
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David O'Brien is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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