Art in Europe 1700-1830 - A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth, 1997, 320 p., br. -

This book provides a totally new and vivid picture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe. In a period of unprecedented change - rapid urbanization, economic growth, political revolution - artists were in the business of finding new ways of making art, new ways of selling art, and new ways of talking about art. Matthew Craske goes well beyond the usual geographical limits of surveys, and engages with crucial thematic issues such as changes in `taste' and `manners', and the impact of enlightenment and notions of progress, to give a refreshingly holistic view of the period.