The Eighteen Nineties: A Review of Art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
By Holbrook JacksonThe classic commentary on a decade remarkable for its creativity, style and flamboyance in a brand new edition. With great insight, Holbrook Jackson brings alive and interprets the creative expressions of this vibrant decade. Each chapter deals with a leading figure, style or trend, capturing with succinct and fluent prose the diverse personalities who held the stage. Jackson shows how it was a period of renaissance as much as of decadence - and as such became the threshold to the modern era.
With 24 illustrations on separate coated stock, and index.
6 x 9 format.
Book details
- Paperback
- 304 pages
- English
- 0972042814
- 9780972042819
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