A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.

with, loving, and hating art to reveal and complicate the lived and felt--the visceral--experience of art.

An incisive new piece of scholarship from renowned art historian Linda Nochlin tackling the concept of "misere," or social misery, as it was reflected in the work of writers, artists, and philosophers in the nineteenth century