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19th Century Art

by H.W. Janson, Robert Rosenblum · 1984

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Providing detailed discussion of 232 painters, this text stresses the interconnections of painting and sculpture with the other arts, and to social and political conditions. The book reflects the revisionist interpretation of 19th-century art.

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