Books | Media

Titles preceded by an asterisk (*) may be purchased through the Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop.

Titles preceded by a plus sign (+) are available for reference in the Elizabeth Stone Robson Teacher Resource Center.

Books for Adults

Surveys

Clark, Timothy J. The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848–1851. New York Graphic Society, 1973.

Crow, Thomas. Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Yale University Press, 1985.

Eisenman, Stephen with Thomas Crow, Brian Lukacher, Linda Nochlin, David L. Phillips, and Frances K. Pohl. Nineteenth-Century Art: A Critical History. Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Fiero, Gloria K. Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World. McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Honour, Hugh. Romanticism. Allen Lane, 1979.

—. Neo-Classicism. Penguin Books, 1977.

Levey, Michael. Rococo to Revolution: Major Trends in Eighteenth-Century Painting. Praeger, 1966.

Malpas, James. Realism. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Nochlin, Linda. Realism. Harmondsworth, UK, Penguin Books, 1971.

Peer, Larry H, ed. Romanticism across the Disciplines. University Press of America, 1998.

Rosenblum, Robert and H.W. Janson. 19th-Century Art. Abrams, 1984.

*+Wise, Susan and Malcom Warner, with Larry J. Feinberg and Martha Wolff. French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.

Artists

Brookner, Anita. Jacques-Louis David. London: Chatto and Windus, 1980.

Fried, Michael. Courbet’s Realism. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Hughes, Robert. Goya. Knopf, 2003

Kasl, Ronda and Suzanne L. Stratton. Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment: Goya and His Contemporaries. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1997.

Levey, Michael. Giambattista Tiepolo, His Life and Art. Yale University Press, 1986.

McIntyre, Ian. Joshua Reynolds: The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy. London: Allen Lane, 2003.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Manet 1832–1883. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.

Michel, Marianne Roland. Watteau: An Artist of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Alpine Fine Arts, 1984.

Murphy, Alexandra. Jean-François Millet. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984.

Rosenthal, Michael. Constable, the Painter in his Landscape. Yale University Press, 1983.

Wright, Beth S. The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix. Cambridge University Press, 2001.


Books for Children

The French Revolution: Paper Dolls to Cut Out. Santa Barbara: Bellerophon Books, 1993.

Dunn, John. The Enlightenment (World History). San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999.

Henderson, Harry. The Age of Napoleon. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1999.

Muhlberger, Richard. What Makes a Goya a Goya? Viking Children’s Books, 1994.

Mulvihill, Margaret. The French Revolution: History and Highlights. London: Watts Publishing Group, 1989.

Otfinoski, Steven. Triumph and Terror: The French Revolution. Replica Books, 2000.

Plain, Nancy. Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and the French Revolution: Rulers and their Times. Benchmark Books, 2002.

Spence, David Barrons. Manet: A New Realism. Great Artists Series. Barrons Educational Series, August 1997.

Tierney, Tom. French Baroque and Rococo Fashions. Dover Publications, 2003.

—. Marie Antoinette Paper Dolls. Dover Publications, 2001.

Venezia, Mike. Eugene Delacroix (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists). Children’s Press, 2003.

Wright, Patricia. Eyewitness Art: Goya. Eyewitness Series. DK Publishing, 1993.

—. Eyewitness Art: Manet. Eyewitness Series. DK Publishing, 1999.

Media

Videos

Landmarks of Western Art, Vol. 3: Baroque to Neoclassicism. 50 min. Kultur Films, 1999.

Landmarks of Western Art, Vol. 4: Rococo to Revolution. 50 min. Kultur Films, 1999.

Landmarks of Western Art, Vol. 5: Romanticism. 50 min. Kultur Films, 1999.

Portrait of an Artist: Theodore Gericault—Men and Wild Horses. 67 min. Home Vision Entertainment, 1987.

Making and Meaning: Turner—Fighting the Termeraire. 25 min. Home Vision Entertainment, 2002.

Goya: Reality and Invention. 60 min. Home Vision Entertainment, 2001.

Romantics and Realists Box Set (Delacroix, Rossetti, Friedrich, Goya, Whistler, Courbet). 5 hours. Kultur Films, 2000.

Portrait of an Artist: Jacques-Louis David—The Passing Show. 53 min. Home Vision Entertainment, 1986.

Portraits by Ingres. 25 min. Home Vision Entertainment, 1999.



Web sites

Artcyclopedia.com: Artists by Movement
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/index.html
Definitions and examples of Rococo, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Realist periods and individual artists and their works.

Loggia.com: Exploring the Arts and Humanities
http://www.loggia.com/art/arthistory.html
Select 18th- and 19th-century art for descriptions of movements and artists within the period.

The National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/french18.htm
A tour of French and Italian paintings of the Rococo and Neoclassical movements.

Alliance for Lifelong Learning
http://stage.aflll.org/er/tree.jsp?c=40450
Listing of numerous Web links to further explore Rococo and Neoclassical art and artists.

New Advent: Rococo Style
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13106a.htm
An extensive description and history of Rococo style.

Boston College Art History Web
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/HP/romantic.html
Links to several sites about Romanticism and its artists.

Artlex.com
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/realism.html
Definition and examples of Realist art and artists.

Realism and Naturalism
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/naturalism.html
A description of the Realist period with reference to visual arts, music, and literature.

The European Enlightenment
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENLIGHT.HTM
Comprehensive site devoted to the Enlightenment. Provides general information, information about artists with selected works, and Web resources.