Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century

by Linda Nochlin

In Misere , famed art historian Linda Nochlin reveals how, in the new form of civilization produced by the Industrial Revolution, in which the phenomenal growth of wealth occurred alongside an expansion of squalor, writers and artists of the nineteenth century used their craft to come to terms with what were often new and unprecedented social, material, and psychological circumstances. Nochlin charts the phenomenon of misery as it was represented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050023969X
• ISBN13: 9780500239698
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"