This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dy

No aspect of American art commands as much interest and appreciation as American Impressionism. Lavishly illustrated and gracefully written, The Golden Age of A

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam po

"This volume is the first to explore fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressioni