Nineteenth Century Art : A Critical History by Stephen F. Eisenman (1994)In art, as in every field, the 19th century was a period of in which artists divined and portrayed the crucial connections between seeing and knowing, vision and society, explored the links between perception and history. Today, this legacy has been obscured by revisionism's that have changed art history. This book embraces the "new" methods while recovering the vitality, salience and subversiveness of the era's best art. This volume suggests that