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Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

This terrific study by Johns Hopkins Humanities professor Fried is, in effect, two books, both of enormous importance and value. The first is a pioneering and thorough (if idiosyncratic) critical ...
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American painting of the nineteenth century : realism, idealism, and the American experience / Barbara Novak

Prolegomena to the nineteenth century : Copley and the American tradition -- Washington Allston : an American romantic tradition -- Thomas Cole : the dilemma of the real and the ideal -- Asher B.
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Realism, representation, and the arts in nineteenth-century literature / by Alison Byerly

The picturesque aesthetic and the natural art of song -- Masterpiece theatres : art as spectacle in William Thackeray and Charlotte Brontë -- George Eliot's hierarchy of representation -- Art works : ...