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Art, Chinese -- 19th century

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• Art, Chinese
• 19th century

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

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• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea (Punctum Books, c2020), by Zhang Jian and Bruce Robertson (PDF at oapen.org)

• A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998), by Julia Frances Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, contrib. by Jonathan D. Spence, Shan Guolin, Christina Chu, Xue Yongnian, and Meiqing Gao (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Maxwell K. Hearn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China, 5,000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998), ed. by Sherman E. Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Loan Exhibition of Early Chinese Art Treasures, for the Benefit of Chinese Civilian War Victims (exhibit catalog; New York: Arden Gallery, ca. 1938) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition of Chinese, Indian and Cambodian Art (New York: Wildenstein Gallery, ca. 1931), by Qinzhai Lu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Sinica (in German) (full serial archives)
• Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst (in German) (full serial archives)

• Arts of the Sung and Yüan: Papers Prepared for an International Symposium Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), ed. by Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2003), by Elizabeth Hammer, contrib. by Felicia Blum and Maxwell K. Hearn
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Audrey G. Spiro (HTML at UC Press)

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Fact Into Figure: Typology in Carlyle, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Herbert L. Sussman (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Nietzsche and Art (London: Constable and Co., 1911), by Anthony M. Ludovici
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • illustrated HTML at anthonymludovici.com
• Nietzsche and Art (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1912), by Anthony M. Ludovici (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)
• Asthetik des Hässlichen (in German; Konigsberg: Bornträger, 1853), by Karl Rosenkranz (page images in Germany)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• The First Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1893) (page images at CMU)
• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopedia of the Literature of Amateur Journalism (Hartford: T. J. Spencer, 1891), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman (multiple editions)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman (HTML at Bartleby)
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901), ed. by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1900), by Edwin Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Masque of Poets: Including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse, ed. by George Parsons Lathrop (page images at MOA)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1914), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915), by Emily Dickinson, contrib. by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ladies' Vase of Wild Flowers: A Collection of Gems From the Best Authors (Auburn, MA: J. M. Alden, 1850), ed. by Miss Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Poems, ed. by Charles W. Kent (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Southern War Poetry of the Civil War (University of Pennsylvania doctoral thesis; 1918), by Esther Parker Ellinger (Gutenberg text)

• Romantic Antiquarianism (2014), ed. by Noah Heringman and Crystal B. Lake (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by William Craft Brumfield (HTML at UC Press)

• The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, Their Arrangement and Construction (third edition; London: The Society For Improving The Condition Of The Labouring Classes, ca. 1853), by Henry Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art (based on 1902-1914 editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1988), by Otto Wagner, ed. by Harry Francis Mallgrave (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Rebecca N. Mitchell (PDF at Ohio State)

• Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Hollis Clayson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Marie-Stephanie Delamaire and Will Slauter (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• L'Art Ottoman: Les Peintres de Turquie (reprint of 1910 original, in French; Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 1988), by Adolphe Thalasso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.