Dana Arnold

Newly expanded to feature additional artworks from more diverse artists, this edition includes fresh commentary across the six chapters to update the publication to the present day. It builds on six key themes that help to draw compelling—and perhaps unexpected—parallels in the story of art across different cultures and time periods, highlighted with a clear visual identity. The bestselling survey...

This original and innovative book examines a period in which the development of London was perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was made to transform the metropolis into a modern European capital. For the first time, the re-imaging of London is considered in relation to attitudes towards land, land...