This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and Parisian consumer culture. Its analysis of Impressionist paintings depicting women as consum

The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expand

"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

The first comprehensive study of Cassatt's life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework. This book re-envisions Mary Cassatt in the con

The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860sÐ1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising,