Reading List

Book lists are always subjective and this list represents a middle-of-the-road view at undergraduate level.

Book list for Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century

• Academies and Education
• Artistic Identities
• Exhibitions and Art Markets
• Art and Mechanical Reproduction
• Landscapes and People
• Class and Labour
• Nature and Nationalism
• Emergence of the Modern City
• The Functions of History Painting
• The Historical Present
• Portraiture: The Hero and the Sovereign
• Ruskin and Revivalism
• Baudelaire and Modernity
• Women Artists
• The Domestic Sphere
• The Nude
• Orientalism and Photography
• Primitivism