Tim Barringer

Nicholas Robbins

T. J. Barringer

Gillian Forrester

Jennifer Raab

Sophie Lynford

Thomas Cole (1801-1848) is widely acknowledged as the founder of American landscape painting. Born in England, Cole emigrated in 1818 to the United States, where he transformed British and continental European traditions to create a distinctive American idiom. He embraced the picturesque, which emphasized touristic pleasures, and the sublime, an aesthetic category rooted in notions of fear and danger. Including striking paintings and a broad range of works on paper, from watercolors to etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, engravings, and lithographs, this book explores the trans-Atlantic context for Cole's oeuvre. These works chart a history of landscape aesthetics and demonstrate the essential role of prints as agents of artistic transmission. The authors offer new interpretations of work by Cole and the British artists who influenced him, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, revealing Cole's debt to artistic traditions as he formulated a profound new category in art. the American sublime.

Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance

Picturesque and Sublime

Alison Smith

Jason Rosenfeld

Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture and applied arts, this book examines both well-known masterpieces and lesser-known works.

Victorian Avant Garde

Pre-Raphaelites

Sotheby & Co. (London, England)

Asher Brown Durand

Kindred Spirits

Asher B. Durand

This illustrated book focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite artists and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and analyses key pictures and their significance within the complex social and cultural matrix of 19th century Britain.

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

Elizabeth Prettejohn

Diane Waggoner

A persuasive new look at the Pre-Raphaelites, who rebelled against the art establishment of their day and strove to ensure that their works changed the society in which they lived

Victorian Art and Design

Andrew Wilton

Published to accompany a major transatlantic exhibition, a tribute to U.S. landscape painting features more than one hundred works by the Hudson River School artists, complemented by three gatefolds, artist biographies, and essays on American landscape painting in the context of international traditions and national identity. (Fine Arts)

Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820-1880

American Sublime

Timothy Barringer

Geoff Quilley

Douglas Fordham

This volume is dedicated to the problematic relationship between art and the British Empire from the 16th century to decolonization in the 20th century. It examines a wide range of visual production, including book illustration, portraiture, monumental sculpture, genre and history painting, visual satire, and more.

Art and the British Empire

T. J. Barringer

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