Stephen Eisenman Books
Gauguin's Skirt
By Stephen Eisenman, Stephen F. Eisenman
Gauguin's Skirt is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late nineteenth century, and colonialism new and old. It is concerned with Paul Gauguin's pr...
Read MoreNineteenth century art
By Stephen Eisenman, Stephen F. Eisenman
This is a radical reconsideration of the origins of modern painting and sculpture in Europe and North America. In art, as in nearly every other field, the nineteenth century was a time of questioni...
Read MoreWilliam Blake and the Age of Aquarius
By Mark Christopher Crosby, Stephen Eisenman
A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively unknow...
Read MoreThe cry of nature
"The cry of nature' reveals how humans engaged in the struggle for animal emancipation and examines for the first time the role of visual art in the growth of animal rights. Embracing the lessons o...
Read MorePaul Gauguin
From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gauguin began as an Impressionist, c...
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